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: > > On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > > 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. > > .hc > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free > software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls > you." - Richard M. Stallman > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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