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[Ecrofirt]

I want to show off those videos I made for my game at school, but I doubt their computers will have the MPEG 4 codec.

I'm looking to transcode them to another format that the school will probably play, but I have no idea what codecs are usually installed in PCs by default.

Oh, the PCs at school are running Win2k, if that helps.

Thanks guys.

 

[bud]

.avi I think...

 

[Ecrofirt]

no, that's that's not what a codec is.

for instance, there's:
Intel YUV

 

[bud]

DivX?

 

[Ecrofirt]

I don't think the school would have that installed.

I'm looking for something that's in all computers by default

 

[Anthropic]

I seem to remember that back in the Windows 2K era, Microsoft was hawking their own MPEG-4 codec, which eventually was hack to become the first Divx codec and was later turned into WM9 by Microsoft. Another option would be Indeo 5 (which is rather ancient by now) or MPEG-1.

 

[bud]

Transfer your files to .avi files, there's a big chance that the pc's will play the files.

 

[Crow]

Transfer your files to .avi files, there's a big chance that the pc's will play the files.

If you are talking about uncompressed...that would take up a huge amount of room. I think he wants a compression solution.

Indeo Video 5.1 will run pre WinXP SP1 and IIRC have no prob on Win2K. Can I ask what is stopping you from installing the likes of DivX or Xvid before you start your presentation? Codecs can be installed and uninstalled quite easily. I'm aware that you may have to ask the teacher/lecturer to log you into Administrator to do it, but that's no obsticle is it?

 

[Ecrofirt]

I ended up getting it to work with the Microsoft MPEG 4 V1 codec.

I can't install codecs here at school due to administrative restrictions.