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Originally Posted by sanddrag
What is the most universal video compressor/codec for an AVI video? I want it to be able to play on almost anyone's computer that has Windows Media Player. In case you were wondering it is a recorded "drive contstaint" animation from Inventor.
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The most universal codec would probably be cinepak, and MPEG-1. But both of these codecs are old, and rarely look good when rendering.
MPEG-2 is really not a good choice because media players don't really like raw MPEG-2 files.
Your best bet would be to make it DV or uncompressed file, and encode it into a WMV, and a MOV (w/MPEG-4 codec). The reason is that I have seen some bad results when you just let inventor just rendered it into a finish codec like MPEG-4. There are several encoders out there, but something like QuickTime Pro or Windows Movie Maker will do the job.