It depends on what codecs and containers or formats the machine you will be conducting the playback will support. If anything, go for MPEG2 video.
FFmpeg should have come with libavcodec, which includes an MPEG2 decoder.
You would need a converter software. A few are available free if you search for them, but most are paid applications. You need to convert your video format to any common video format such as avi, mpeg, mpeg2 etc.
Yes they are the same. MP4 is a digital movie file format. AVI, MPEG2 and H.264 are common digital file formats as well.
To encode video files using the MPEG2 codec, the process involves compressing the video data by removing redundant information and then storing it in a format that can be easily decoded and played back. This compression process helps reduce the file size while maintaining good video quality.
They are 2 different formats for sound - the compression rate and coding is different, the sizes and even players may be different. AAC is a subsection of MPEG2 and MPEG4, WAV is an older format that uses RIFFSTREAM format, is the main format used on Windows; the usual bitstream format is PCM - Pulse Code Modulation and is limited to less than 4 gigabyte sized files.
It depends upon you DVD player. If you have simple DVD player then it will play mpeg2 format which are in the .vob files and ac3 which is audio format. It should also play the mpeg1 format which is usually in .dat or called video cds. The new DVD players also support xvid or divx codecs.
AVI
it can support files, like MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI. other than that mkv format it wont detect those files. you need to convert to above formats. and use on your device.
MPEG4 does not work with movie maker (or windows for that matter) I'm not sure what's the best though sorry... try MPEG2, just a guess don't get mad if its bad
QuickTime player was developed by Apple Computer. QuickTime can play various file formats (MPEG2, MPEG4, MP3, DivX, JPEG,PNG,etc) for sound, video, text, etc. It supports also streaming format.
I have found that most players play the file extensions MPEG2 and DVD, although there is still the problem with some home players not playing either ( I still haven't figured out why ) while still other home players play them with no problem.