A discussion about converting an MPEG-4 video to 4-bit Cinepak Quicktime spawned some discussion about quality of different codecs.

> http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=960

I thought I would start a new thread to discuss the topic of Cinepak vs. Motion-JPEG as it seems interesting to more than a few people.

The claim was that MotionJPEG produced better results than Cinepak at any given data rate. My own tests on a high-motion video clip (28 seconds long) produced similar results.

How can this be?

I'll do some more tests and post the results soon.