Motion JPEG is a two field per frame format (like ye olde TV) while Photo
JPEG is a single frame progressive format.  There is nothing random nor
messed up about the naming.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
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> > Le 2011-11-30 à 11:13:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> >
> >> That should defintiely work, I've run it on slower machines.  It
> depends a lot on your graphics card too.  As for video playback, if you
> want to manipulate the video, then you should convert it to a JPEG (aka
> MJPEG) codec.  .mov is a pretty common container format for JPEG videos.
> >
> > There are three different codecs named JPEG, MJPEG-A and MJPEG-B. They
> are very similar but not fully interchangeable. So, you can't just say
> «aka».
>
> I say 'aka' because unfortunately its not that simple.  I believe that
> Apple labeled JPEG in .mov as "Motion JPEG" for a while, and it was just a
> JPEG codec.  But it was not MJPEG.  So the whole naming is messed up.
>
> In any case, JPEG is the one that most people want.
>
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