Testing video codecs: Favor needed.

Asking for a favor folks:

I've got 4 different versions of a video. Don't quote me on this, but I believe that 2 of them are encoded using MPEG 4 as .AVI, and other other 2 are DIVX as .AVI. I'm not sure if there is any special software that is required to play the ones that I have up as MPEG 4, so if someone out there has an old machine that they know doesn't have any new video codecs installed, I'd appreciated it if you could test the videos on the following page:

http://www.rdi1.com/dickinson/video.htm
http://www.co.dickinson.ia.us/newcourthouse/video.htm

I'd like to put a Quicktime version up, but I don't have anything that will encode to Quicktime, so I'm stuck with what I can do for free.

Thanks,
Matt

I thought MPEG 4 was Apple's pretty new codec...and i think that support for MPEG 4 was only included in QT 6. I could be wrong though. If i'm right, your MPEG 4s will definitely not work on an older version of QT. One more thing..i've never heard of an avi MPEG 4..usually they're .mpeg..!

MPEG4 is everywhere man, where have you been?

Yeah dude, mpeg4 is like a standard for video files nowadays.

about the testing... sorry, cant. i installed a divx codec.

Hmm... following along this line of thought, does anybody have a prog that can convert ASF files to mpeg?

mpeg 4?? mpeg4 is relatively new...it was only released around 5 months ago, i have the Steve Jobs announcement on my HD.

Supah, I'm pretty sure that VirtualDub can convert ASF to AVI. I'm not sure a program that can convert directly from ASF to MPG, but if nothing else, you could use VDub to go from ASF to AVI, then use TMPGEnc to go from AVI to MPEG.

Yeah Cybling, MPEG 4 is being used by everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Real. There isn't anybody out there that's not using it.

I have a relatively old system and I've never heard of DIVX so I probably dont have it on my system. Both the .avi and Windows Media Player files (56k) worked on my computer, playing in the Windows Media Player that came with my computer or IE6 or something.

Hope that helps.

tom

Thanks Tom, that does help.

If anybody has Quicktime Pro, and wants to help a guy out, and spread Quicktime to about 10,000 more people, then you could really help me out by downloading a higher quality version of the videos and encoding it into Quicktime for me. I'll put it up if you do.

Thanks

supah: VirtualDub removed ASF support after Microsoft pressured them. All the current versions since 1.3c have the ASF support removed.

I have XviD, DivX, OGG and the WMP codecs installed, and up to date there hasn't been a single video file I can't view with Windows Media Player (aside from the usual QT and RM formats).

All of the video files on there worked for me. ;)

flyover_320x240.avi and 720x480 is Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2
The DivX ones are DivX 5.0.3.