• Television uses analog signal. Computer digital signal (non-continuous).
• To enable video to be handled on a computer requires digital compression (to store video) and decompression (to display video) technologies (CODEC's - COmpression / DECompression) include; Video for Windows (Microsoft), INDEO (Intel), MPEG Decoder for Windows (Xing Technology)
• Full motion full screen video at 30 frames per second (fps) using software will require a minimum of a Pentium 90.
• Typically PC video is saved at 15 fps.

• Palettes
  • Palette problems with older 256 colour displays.
• Speed
  • Frames per second: In the USA NTSC TV runs at 30 fps. Computer video is usually 15 fps. (PAL runs at 25fps)

• Capturing from the net
  • Rightmouse the video and Save As
  • If Quicktime or RealAudio where the producers have save disabled, stop the file after it downloads and before it stopsplaying, then look for the file in cache.
• Codec missing, or video conversion utilities
  • Codec zone (http://gonow.to/codeczone)
  • Codec central (terran-int.com/CodecCentral/GenInfo.html)
  • Troubleshooting Audio and video codecs, Microsoft. Retrieved xxx from the World Wide Web : http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q141/8/01.asp.
• AVI tutorial
  • McGowan, J. (http://www.jmcgowan.com)
• MPEG
  • Motion Picture Experts Group FAQ . Retrieved xxx from the World Wide Web: http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/faq.htm) 

Bass, S. (2001, Apr), PC video untangled, NZ PC World 137, p 21.

• Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
  • Audio and video Interleaved - standard Windows file (specified 1990).
  • Uses about 1MB per second for the size shown left. (move mouse over to display)
• Quicktime
  • Digital video format developed on the Apple Macintosh platform. Used by Director (which was also developed for the Mac)
• MPEG ( Motion Picture Experts Group)
  • Named after an international standards-settings panel responsible for creating and setting standards for various professional grade video technology.
  • MPEG2 is a video compression standard, though like Apples MOV files is ideally suited to sound recordings.
  • MPEG-3 was designed to support high definition TV but this was supported by MPEG-2 (Hence MP3 was used for a sound format).
  • MPEG-4 is being worked on to allow users to manipulate audio & video (as far as I can determine to allow for interactive/multimedia movies).
    .(Millman, H. 1999, Mar)

• Advanced Authoring Format (AAF)
  • Enables the exchange of media among digital production tools and content creation applications used by Web, television, motion picture and multimedia production developers.
  • Designed to replace AVI in Windows in 1999.
  • Busse, T (1998, Apr 13), Microsoft mutimedia
• Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) or Netshow
  • Actually not a file format but specifies the way to send streaming data files (such as video) over a network.
  • (Busse, T., 1998, Apr 13), Microsoft mutimedia
• RealNetworks RealAudio (RA)
• Quicktime - Virtual Reality (QT-VR)
  • An extension to Quicktime allowing manipulation of the video.