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wwp@yahoogroups.com: Re: MPEG4 v JPEG compression Aldo Hoeben 2005-Jul-13 10:55:00

A word of caution about using other compressors than JPEG:
Some other viewers/applications than Quicktime can not decode panoramas 
compressed with other codecs.

If you ever want to play back your quicktimes in other players such as 
PTViewer, PangeaVR*, Cubic Explorer*, or SPi-V, you should use JPEG instead.

'do

*: not 100% sure, these viewers COULD be using quicktime in the background.

bruce_hemming wrote:

> Having been admonished by the wagging finger on the prep server over 
> the size of my
> submission I did a little experiment with the following results.  
> Compressed at 51% with
> JPEG = 2.7 meg file, compressed at 51% with MPEG4 = 1.9 meg file.
>
> Quality looked identical to me - any pano gurus care to comment on 
> which codec gives
> best results? Out of all available that is - not just the two that I 
> have used as examples.
>
> Could save some wrist slapping next time around.
>
> Best
>
> Bruce
>
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