dirkzelf
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On my search for the "best action/hat/car/body camera" I stumbled on AVI file formats and MJPEG video compression.
This resulted in having bought a few cheap cams with AVI file format that are ACTUALLY REALY HORRIBLE....
Is it coïncidental, or just due to the AVI/MJPEG system? I wonder, because many of these are the right form factor, small, and exactly what I'd like.
But.... I really need better video quality. Now, I also have the Mate808 camera which actually does a "decent" job (still worse that MOV/MP4), but all others are just horrible. All my cams that record in MP4 or MOV file format have great video quality, but all that AVI stuff is really below average at best...
Why are almost ALL AVI/MJPEG cams so freekin' cheap?
Should I skip ALL cams with AVI file format?
Are there actually cameras with AVI that have good / decent image results?
Is AVI married to MJPEG, or can it work with H.264 compression as well?
And then I found more and more cams with ASF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format). Can someone tell me in layemans language what that is, and why I should or should not use it?
This resulted in having bought a few cheap cams with AVI file format that are ACTUALLY REALY HORRIBLE....
Is it coïncidental, or just due to the AVI/MJPEG system? I wonder, because many of these are the right form factor, small, and exactly what I'd like.
But.... I really need better video quality. Now, I also have the Mate808 camera which actually does a "decent" job (still worse that MOV/MP4), but all others are just horrible. All my cams that record in MP4 or MOV file format have great video quality, but all that AVI stuff is really below average at best...
Why are almost ALL AVI/MJPEG cams so freekin' cheap?
Should I skip ALL cams with AVI file format?
Are there actually cameras with AVI that have good / decent image results?
Is AVI married to MJPEG, or can it work with H.264 compression as well?
And then I found more and more cams with ASF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format). Can someone tell me in layemans language what that is, and why I should or should not use it?