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Originally posted by sigsegv AVI is a container which holds a video and an audio stream (such as XviD and MP3 ) just like OGM or MKV. You can put video created by DivX, XviD, theora, Huff, MJPEG, DV or a whole host of other codecs in the container. AVI is technically inferior in a lot of ways to the others out there, but that's a whole other discussion.
You can put an MPEG video stream into an AVI, but you don't typically want to as hardly anything will play it.
As for size -- If size was no object I'd just have a ton of 4GB MPEG2's ripped straight from DVDs on my disks (no recompression), but disks aren't *that* cheap
You didn't have to get all technical, my post was more of a dumb response type joke.
And yes, drives and space are fairly cheap nowadays, well, at least where I live. And I have many 500MB to 2GB ripped movies myself. Some I like at exceptional quality, others I don't need this....
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) just like OGM or MKV. You can put video created by DivX, XviD, theora, Huff, MJPEG, DV or a whole host of other codecs in the container. AVI is technically inferior in a lot of ways to the others out there, but that's a whole other discussion.
