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Originally Posted by kgun
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(I keep getting the same homepage loop every time I click the link on the page "
Click here to play").
I've found video compression totally different than image compression. A movie can be compressed a lot and still look the same. I would guess this is because most of the movie/video clips are of such low quality and low sampling rate that they can be compressed more without looking any different. There's a free program called "SUPER.exe" that will convert any kind of video file to any other kind of video file. I've found it very interesting in learning about bit rates, formats, and Codecs with regards to file size Vs. quality. Another thing, if you want to convert a poor quality FLV into say a WMV or AVI, if you use the better settings the result will look WORSE than using a lower setting (lower bit rate), because the lower bit rate won't show the detail, therefore won't show the huge compression artifacts and other artifacting associated with low quality files. It, in a manner of speaking, "smooths out" the jagged edges and compression anomalies.