Best Program to Encode a Prerecorded High Definition Video to Streaming?

[BigDaddyWiLL]

i have a friend who makes "home movies" he wants to make preview clips in high definition format for streaming from a webhost of sorts, now my question is.. what if you know.. would be the best program to encode a prerecorded High Definition (uncompressed)Avi file into a streamable file format i:e mpg or wmv, he's looking to attain the lowest bitrate and at the same time best quality.. any suggestions? he says he wants it below 2 megabits per second and at the same time maintain high def , i told him he doesnt need to maintain high def quality for 1:20 sec clips on a streaming format.. its for preview clips basically of a final product. i said high quality mpeg-2 and even mpeg-1 rips would suffice... what do u guys think?

[kwag]

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Originally Posted by BigDaddyWiLL

i said high quality mpeg-2 and even mpeg-1 rips would suffice... what do u guys think?

Frankly, 2 Mbps is quite a low bitrate for a high definition picture, even if you use KDVD techniques.
Unless you have a low motion/low action material, you're going to get blocks dancing all over the screen

-kwag

[BigDaddyWiLL]

hmm ok thanks for the input

[Dialhot]

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