Thank you. We have a lot of inertia around here, and no one remembered exactly why we chose that codec. With this information, I can test mpeg4 on Win 7+ and then call the whole thing done.
Michael Kohne Senior Software Engineer Office: 215.283.0860 x208 [email protected] On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:53 AM Moritz Barsnick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:37:20 -0400, FFmpeg user discussions wrote: > > My understanding is that msmpeg4v2 is a Microsoft variant on mpeg4. > > That's what I also understand. > > > What did they do to it? > > I'm too lazy to check the details. It appears the codec is implemented > against a pre-version of the MPEG4 standard, and not quite compliant to > the final version. I also recall it supports only a restricted set of > MPEG4's features. > > > Why would one choose msmpeg4v2 vs plain mpeg4? > > For some version of Microsoft Windows - I believe XP before SP2 - this > was the "best" codec which was part of Windows. I.e. if you wanted to > encode for a user who would not add additional codecs (or VLC ;-)) to > their Windows, and who should be able to decode out of the box, you > would have chosen msmpeg4v2 as the most modern option. (For coverage of > older Windows versions, you would have chosen an "older" codec, > probably MPEG2. DivX - another MPEG4 variant, IIRC, was hacked into > some old MS codec DLL, but I don't recall what they had originally > delivered.) > > > My output container is AVI, and I'm targeting playback on Windows, but my > > limited experiments show that the Windows systems playback mpeg4 just > fine. > > You can probably assume that anything older than XP shouldn't be > allowed to play videos anymore anyway. ;-) XP may still be supported in > some corporate environments, but is *way* past end of life. I > personally would assume at least Windows 7. > > Cheers, > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". -- Celebrating 20 Years Transforming Neurocritical Care Moberg Research, Inc. 224 S Maple Street, Ambler, PA 19002 24/7 Customer Support: 888.662.7246 www.moberg.com <https://www.moberg.com/> _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
