Comparison between MOV and DV

MOV was originally developed by Apple as a file format for its QuickTime movie player. The MOV format presented a lot of advantages that are quite usable to everyday use but the proprietary nature of the MOV format was a major hindrance.

DV is an intraframe compression scheme, which uses the discrete cosine transform (DCT) to compress video on a frame-by-frame basis. Audio is stored uncompressed. a format for recording and playing back digital video.recorders.

Summary:

1.Both MOV and DV are lossy formats which sacrifices quality for file size

2.MOV was initially developed by Apple as a file format for QuickTime

3.MOV is the basis for the development of DV

4.MOV works better and has more widespread support than DV for streaming video

5.Saving your file to either MOV or DV would result in the same video if you use the same codec

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