Media Gallery -

Comparison of several encoding profiles (quality/size ratio)

Note: Source file was taken with a MiniDV camcorder.

xxx min = ~xxGB

xxmin => Number of minutes of video.
xxGB/MB => Size of the file on the hard disk drive.

100 min = ~ 20GB

- Used to store high quality video -

Indeo 5.10

100 min = > 8GB

- Used for PowerPoint presentations -

MPEG-2 (6Mbits/s)

100 min = > 5GB

- Used to store long duration videos -

WMV (High)

100 min = > 1GB

- used to share video on the Web -

WMV (Medium)

100 min = > 500MB

- used to share video on the Web -

WMV (Low)

100 min = > 40MB

- used to share video on the Web -