Convert video to more universal format?

[yetanotherlogin]

Hello

I uploaded a MOV file to a web server, but it fails playing with Apple's QuickTime plug-in. I tried Chrome and Firefox, to no avail. The MOV file is "4CC MPEG" for video and "AC3" for audio.

I'm thinking of converting the file to something else that users would be more likely to be able to play in their browser: MP3 is a no-brainer for audio, but since 2.5 provides about ten different options, I don't know which format to try for video. Which would you recommend?

Thank you.

[styrol]

MPEG-1/2 video in MOV is highly problematic. So is AC3. AC3 in MOV is supported by Perian QuickTime plugin (only available for Mac OS X).

Just use MP4 (h.264/aac), natively supported by Safari und Internet Explorer (via HTML 5 video tag or as embedded MP4 video in SWF via Flash Player) and the correspondent OS (Windows Vista and higher, Mac OS X).

As a fallback for other HTML 5 capable web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) WebM (VP8/Vorbis) is used.

[yetanotherlogin]

Thanks for the tip.

Should I use MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid), or MPEG-4 ASP (mpeg4)?

[Agent_007]

MPEG-4 AVC

[yetanotherlogin]

Thank you.