Hi again captn.
Your basic quest for high quality video is difficult enough without the
added complication of distribution.
My reply to your post of a few days ago (
www.elecard.com) is my best
suggestion for an easy and effective way to get MPEG2 files to play in
PowerPoint. Your users would have to install the player, though (and that
would give you licensing issues).
One other thing you could try is higher-than-normal-res MPEG1 files.
The default, and usually most advisable, resolution for MPEG1 is the VCD
setting of 352x288 at 1150kbps - and it is these numbers that determine our
assessment of MPEG1 as low quality. You can, however, create them at
different settings if you adhere to the rules (don't overdrive the bit rate
and make sure the width and height are a multiple of 16). So you should be
able to create MPEG1 files at the same resolution as your MPEG2 files or,
for example, 640x480 at 4000 kbps. Because these are played back using the
same driver as any other MPEG1 you should have no problems with
distribution, though some applications don't like playing MPEG1 files that
don't comply to the standard mentioned above.