I am trying to find out what is the best compression to use for posting a quicktime movie on a website. I want something that is clear, yet relatively small, and very important: it must be something that the vast majority of users could view easily within thier brower window. (in other words, the codec must be in common use.)
I used one called H.264 (I think), and that compressed the file impressively small (2.5 mb) while retaining the quality, however, I tried showing it to a friend and it wouldn't play for him.
Uncompressed of course is universally viewable to all who have Quicktime, but the file size ended up over 40 mb's. Way too big for a simple short clip, thus obviously unacceptable.
Any suggestions on what I should use?