What format is better than AVI or MP4?
Let’s start with the help.
AVI is a media container that contains video and audio data compressed by various codecs. AVI supports multi-streaming audio and video. This video format is considered the best of similar video standards due to its video recording capabilities and convenience.
mp4 is a media container format used to package digital video and audio streams, as well as subtitles and metadata. mp4 allows streaming over the Internet. mp4 is the most popular and widespread video recording format, as it is used to provide high-quality and high-speed information transfer.
First of all, the choice of video format depends on your goal: whether you will record your own videos and edit them, or you will simply watch a movie with a quality image. It all depends on the use of codecs when writing a file to a container that stores digitized information using codecs.
To watch a video, it is better to use such a video container, when recording a file in which codecs were used that process the video without losing quality, such as codecs of the DNxHD 120 format.
So we know DNxHD 120 format codecs were used, what to do next, which container to choose?
In terms of features, we can assume that both containers are not inferior to each other in video file playback quality, but nevertheless AVI wins as it serves as a better wrapper for storing video than mp4. mp4 is used to play videos on portable devices, as well as to upload videos to hosting sites like YouTube, AVI, in turn, is a container that records files with the best possible quality, therefore it is better than mp4.
Even if you use mp4, you shouldn’t be bothered by the not-so-good video quality, as it may turn out that only mp4 used the best codec, although this manifested itself only in rare cases.
When recording your own video, it all depends on the device you are recording on and the codecs installed by the manufacturer on your device. If you have a high-quality camera and good codecs, you can get the final video in excellent quality in an AVI container.
Even if you use mp4, you shouldn’t be bothered by the not-so-good video quality, as it may turn out that only mp4 used the best codec, although this manifested itself only in rare cases.
