[MEncoder-users] which movie format for different OS (windows, apple, linux ...)

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2012. 01. 8, vasárnap keltezéssel 20.45-kor James Hastings-Trew ezt
írta:

> >
> All Windows and Mac users should be able to play .mp4 files "out of the 
> box" on their systems with no further installation of software or other 
> codecs. Linux users will likely have to install something like VLC in 
> order to view the same files. 

Only if they have a recent Windows (or Mac) and a computer powerful
enough. There are still lots of old computers and OSes, especially at
the universities (!).
        
The most safe format is MPEG-1, this can be played back with even
stone-age systems.
        
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