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Old 2009-06-08, 08:18   Link #13
jpwong
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DVDs use the MPEG2 format. Ever see how large one of those old .mpg videos are? XVID is MPEG-4. In general, new codecs > old codecs for space compression. Of course that means less things can play new codecs unless the hardware decoding standards are brought up.
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