Ashley Aitken opined on Thursday 13-Dec-2012@06:59:16
> Thanks guys.
> 
> I honestly don't know what Windows can or cannot play.  I had hoped that most 
> people with XP, Vista, 7 and 8 could play the video without installing 
> anything.  
> 
> But that now seems a fantasy.
> 
> QuickTime 7 doesn't seem to export to MPEG-1 (unless that is Motion-JPEG)?

You don’t want MPEG-1 anyway.

> It doesn't export MPEG-2 (as Jared mentioned - I think one had to purchase 
> the codec).

And you don’t want MPEG-2 unless you are trying to make a DVD.

> Not sure what codec EyeTV mp4 files use?

h.264 (MPEG4)

> QuickTime 7 does export MPEG-4 (yeah!) but then LuKreme suggests Windows 7 
> can't play them?

Windows can’t play *anything* by default.

> Still confused.  Shall I just use H264 in mp4 and tell them to install 
> QuickTime?

Quicktime is not needed. There are 8 billion video players for windows, and I 
bet 5 billion of them support MPEG4.

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