Internet video is any kind of movie or video that has been encoded to play over the Internet. It comes in many formats, some of the most popular being ASF, WMV, RM, RMVB, MOV, Divx.
Many may well know that the Internet video is very small , but the quality is less than satisfying. The reason? Well, the video is among the most apace consuming digital media.
The bigger and better the video, the larger the file size is. In order to shrink a broadcast-quality video ,down to just a few megabytes, sacrifices need to be made in the size and quality of the images.
ASF, that is Advanced Streaming format, is a video format developed by Microsoft as a competitor to Real Player. Users can play the video with Windows Media Play. As it is compressed using MPED-4 arithmetic, the compressing rate and quality of the image are quite good. Since high-rate compression will facilitate the transmission of the video streaming, at the cost of degraded image quality, ASF can be less stable than VCD.
RM, Real Media, an audio/video compression criterion established by Real Networks. Netizens can use RealOne Player or RealPlayer to relay network audio/video sources up to RealMedia technological criteria.An outstanding merit of RealMedia is its able to set different compressing ratios in accordance with the variable transmission rate of internet, so as to make come true real-time propagation and play of video data with relatively low-rate internet, that is to say enable users to watch videos on-line.
As for the distinctions between RM and ASF, generally speaking, RM video is a bit more smooth, while ASF has its edge in definition.
For all these formats merits and demerits mentioned above, there is another aspect to be concerned.
A warning notice will pop up if you download these files and play them on your iPod, PSP or some other portable gadgets, incompatible files!
The damned thing, er? Each coin has two sides, and technology is no exception. But there is always a way to work things out. What you have to do is convert those files into what your cute gadgets support. If u have got one iPod,and need some converting work , I suggest iPod Video Converter for Mac , which is a perfect audio and video conversion software for iPod at present to MAC USERS. It enables you converting all popular audio and video files , u can get it on http://www.sharewareguide.net/Audio-Multimedia/Rippers-Converters/ipod-video-converter-for-mac.html , for free, hope this can do u a favor
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Broaden your knowledge about internet videos
05/29/2008 11:56:49
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