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Old 2nd September 2018, 00:33   #12  |  Link
manolito
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The simple answer is that if you need to distribute your encodes to lots of different folks with very different playback chains then you need to pick the lowest common denominator. And the formats almost everyone can play on the TV are still DVD (Mpeg2) and DivX/XviD. Many folks own standalone DVD players which play DivX HomeTheater profile (which can be easily mimicked by XviD). And when done right MPEG4-ASP can look very nice at one third of the MPEG2 file size.

And if you feel that MPEG4-ASP is too old to be useful then what do you think about DVD? Even older, but with a huge user base.

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