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How can I put home videos on my computer?

MP4, AVI or MKV for home videos?

  • I am trying to put all of my home videos onto a hardrive so I can watch them on my tv, tablet or computer. I have low quality mpeg2 videos on video DVD and higher quality videos that ...show more

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    If you're on a Mac, quicktime mov are high quality and can be easily used to create other file versions.

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You really only need to convert videos if the player you will be using doesn't support them (and in that case you might want to keep a copy of the original for future conversions), or space is an issue and you need them smaller. Otherwise, it's best to leave them as they are. Better that than unnecessarily recompressing and losing quality - especially if you have to do it again later. If a video's format becomes obsolete later on, you can convert it at that time. It's one of the positives of digital media.

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AVI is the most universally recognized. I'd use that. Second would be mp4 and third would be mkv.

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