H.264 in avi

[Sharktooth]

People who don't want to be educated, even if you help them, encourage them, show them the way ? Of course they exist. But in that case they juste deserve to have problems. In our case, they don't deserve to have H.264 quality. Mpeg-1 ripped from an old VHS will be good enough for them (and they probably wouldn't see the difference).

Compromises can be done, we have to make things easy for non-technical people, of course. But AVI-in-H.264 is just a stupid bad practice which don't fit into that category.
wise words.
+1

[Yoshiyuki Blade]

Sometimes they don't know or go towards (for whatever reason) the trends; you just have to bring the trends to them.

For those who are not familiar with what goes on in this area, certainly. It would be somewhat difficult for someone to convince a newbie here on these forums to use something that's outdated, mainly because more people that will convince them otherwise.

From what I've seen, the users that are most reluctant to accept the changing trends are the ones who have knowledge of older trends.

[poisondeathray]

Yeah .. So If I Need To Introduce A New Thing To You, Then I Introduced It In a language you do not understand, will you be willing to learn more about it ? Of course No !

So, let's introduce avc h264 to those who do not know it with something they know "avi", so that they can play the videos easily after the setup of a small decoder, once they discover the quality it offers, we can turn to mp4 container.

NB. Sorry for my bad english !

Since they already are installing something, why not suggest installing something like Mplayer / SMplayer instead of some "small decoder"?

It natively supports many formats, containers, codecs - internally without the need to install multiple external codecs/splitters. That way you can playback h.264,.mkv, .mp4, .rmvb, .mov....etc.... with 1 simple install

[Sharktooth]

VLC, mplayer, MPC and all players based on them are free and wont need external "codecs" or anything for h.264 in both mp4 and mkv.
you need a codec or source filter for divx/xvid, h.264... and many other (almost all) non-microsoft formats to be able to play them in the default media player (WMP).
what's easier?

[bob0r]

If you.... are thinking.... of using.... H.264 .. in avi... DON'T! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6803Gu8tpuw)

[Sharktooth]

Lol... ... :D

sorry, i couldnt resist.