MP4, AVI and MPEG are three different digital video formats. All of them widely used in a medium or other format, but are not compatible with each other. MPEG (of which MP4 is actually a version) is the most widely used, but AVI is gaining ground.
Types
AVI or Audio Video Interleave, is a format developed by Microsoft. MPEG is the common standard format term created by Moving Picture Experts Group.
Differences
AVI can be played in most Windows-based applications, such as Windows Media Player. MPEG works primarily with QuickTime, Apple-based applications and video discs, while MP4 is used primarily with many personal media players such as iPod and PSP.
ID
MP4 is actually MPEG-4, a subset of the MPEG standard. What people usually refer to as MPEG is MPEG-1 or MPEG-2. In contrast, MPEG-3 is not MP3, which is included in MPEG-1.
Importance
MPEG-1 is used with video compact discs (VCD), while higher quality MPEG-2 is used for DVDs.
Benefits
The biggest difference of MP4 from the other MPEG formats is its ability to save subtitles, still images and other data with digital audio and video.
Warning
Some personal devices can be advertised as “MP4”, using the term colloquial, but they actually play AMV files.
Avi or mp4 ?? which is better and why?
which of the two video formats is better ???
if the 2 are 1200×720 which gives me better quality ????
The avi with the codex divx is better.
Obviously the best quality format is .avi but it is heavier than the .mp4 format because this is a compression format mostly used for portable devices.
what happens is that the mp4 is used for cell phones and Mp4 players (that is, its quality is reduced).
AVI, MKV, MPG, WMV, FLV, OGM, MOV, MP4 are VIDEO CONTAINERS, that is, the files that contain video, audio and subtitle streams inside. The container has no effect on the quality of the video or audio or subtitle.
But which video format is better? An avi, mp4, wmv, mpeg?
The correct question is that VIDEO FORMAT offers the best quality / weight ratio.
DivX / XviD, h264, WMV8, WMV9 / HC-1, RV30 / RV40, VP8, MPEG are some VIDEO FORMATS.
The one that best quality / weight ratio offers at the moment is the H264 and which is widely surpassed by the new H265 that offers the same quality but at half the weight of an h264, the H265 standard – and the format has the same name – this Made for streaming video and take advantage of the bitrate or speed of transmitted data, this is why it offers this relationship of maintaining the same quality but at half the weight of the previous H264 standard.
The MOV and FLV containers have chosen to adopt this h264 format because of its quality / weight advantages, even though the h264 is the common format for videos on BluRay discs. There are also several encoders to h264 being the best free x264 encoder, so the free video software uses it, and some commercial programs also use it.
So you can play your movies without problems on your X media player, you should consider the following:
Read the manual to know which video CONTAINERS are recognizable by the software of the reproductive system, also that AUDIO and VIDEO FORMATS, and most importantly, WHAT coding FEATURES they must comply with.
