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well. AVI is a multimedia container format. It can contain media which is encoded in many different ways. For example DivX (3/4/5/6), XviD, MJPEG, H.264, mp3, ac3, ogg and so on. So it is not easy to specify a codec for AVI. You may say for AVI please use the XviD decoder and you could get the problem that XviD cannot decode DivX4 (just an example, dunno if this is right, but I hope you understand the issue). So its much saver to let windows choose the right codec (although this also sometimes does not work, but that is a different story). And would you really like to specify for all those codecs out there the correct decoder?

On the contrary mpeg-files only contain mpeg1/2. So you won't get a problem here (Although some mpeg decoders might have problems with mpeg1). And windows often chooses the wrong codec itself, so its better to specify the codec here.

HTH,
Flip.

<blockquote data-quote="FlipGer" data-source="post: 176625" data-attributes="member: 10293">Hi,well. AVI is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave" target="_blank">multimedia container format</a>. It can contain media which is encoded in many different ways. For example DivX (3/4/5/6), XviD, MJPEG, H.264, mp3, ac3, ogg and so on. So it is not easy to specify a codec for AVI. You may say for AVI please use the XviD decoder and you could get the problem that XviD cannot decode DivX4 (just an example, dunno if this is right, but I hope you understand the issue). So its much saver to let windows choose the right codec (although this also sometimes does not work, but that is a different story). And would you really like to specify for all those codecs out there the correct decoder? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />On the contrary mpeg-files only contain mpeg1/2. So you won't get a problem here (Although some mpeg decoders might have problems with mpeg1). And windows often chooses the wrong codec itself, so its better to specify the codec here.HTH,Flip.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FlipGer, post: 176625, member: 10293"] Hi, well. AVI is a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave"]multimedia container format[/URL]. It can contain media which is encoded in many different ways. For example DivX (3/4/5/6), XviD, MJPEG, H.264, mp3, ac3, ogg and so on. So it is not easy to specify a codec for AVI. You may say for AVI please use the XviD decoder and you could get the problem that XviD cannot decode DivX4 (just an example, dunno if this is right, but I hope you understand the issue). So its much saver to let windows choose the right codec (although this also sometimes does not work, but that is a different story). And would you really like to specify for all those codecs out there the correct decoder? :) On the contrary mpeg-files only contain mpeg1/2. So you won't get a problem here (Although some mpeg decoders might have problems with mpeg1). And windows often chooses the wrong codec itself, so its better to specify the codec here. HTH, Flip. [/QUOTE]