Video bit rates for members?

[Surfn]

Originally Posted by furrygirl

As both a Mac user and a software cheapskate, I've been doing my video slips for the last two and a half years in .mov format made in Quicktime Pro. Many people seem to hate Quicktime with a passion, although I can't understand why. I personally hate Real Player and WMV, and WMV videos only work half the time for me anyhow. (Likely the plugin for Macs issue.)

I figure the most universal thing to do is to switch over to MPEG, so I'm hiring a friend who does videoediting to re-do all my clips. Quicktime Pro doesn't seem to tell you the bit rate, and I'm wondering, what's a good bit rate for members videos? (The clips aren't big, shot with my older digital camera at 320x240.)

I loathe Real Player that's an instant decline. I do like Quicktime I prefer it over anything else, however most of my surfers don't use it.

When I review if it doesn't load in my WMP then I don't list it.

[Surfn]

So much for posting when I'm hurried

You are asking about your members area. I would take a poll to see what most members use and go with that. To please 90+% you will need to have at least 2 formats.

[Wazza]

Seeing as you have the ability to - I would watch them at full screen and see what is lowest bit rate which gives perfect quality and then use that.

As for the format - mpeg