Best Codec for Multimedia CD-Rom?

[styleBunny]

Multimedia CD-ROM! Who makes them anymore?!

True, but i'm after some opinions.

I recently made a cd-rom with a video in it, the video was encoded from premier with the intel indeo 4.5 codec.

This rendered an avi file, that was not overly small in file-size but it was of respectable video quality. This file played fine on most 'newer' computer systems (pentium 3+ win. xp) but on older computers / OS video would not play back with in the multimedia interface, but sometimes would play back via windows media player.

So my question is, do people have an opinion on the best codec for multimedia cd-rom videos? Based on quality/file size/audience etc...

I'm told mpeg is the way to go, but does this mean i have to have Quicktime accompanying the project? Is there an mpeg format playable via windows media player?

Thanks for reading?
paul.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

If you want to embed your video in Director movie, then QuickTime is the best option. You can include QuickTime installer in the CD-ROM. to use MPEG in Director, use MPEG Xtra such as

http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/products/mpeg_advance/index.tdb