[PLUG] Q: comparison of video formats

[Paul Johnson]

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:52:54PM -0700, AthlonRob wrote:
> deal with storing 60 minutes at 25Mb/sec (I assume you mean megabyte,
> not bit)... that's about 67GB/hour... I *think* you can just 

SI is always case sensitive.

b bit
B byte
kb kilobit
kB kilobyte
Mb megabit
MB megabyte
Gb gigabit
GB gigabyte
Tb terabit
TB terabyte
...

> As somebody else said, there are probably patent issues with *all* the
> video formats... except that Ogg one he mentioned (and I haven't tried
> yet).

I'm not sure Ogg Theora (the video half of the Ogg multimedia codec)
is ready yet, I know I haven't seen it.  I've seen some semi-Ogg,
semi-DivX movies, using DivX for the video and Ogg for the audio;
these files usually end with .ogm.

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