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Big Things in Small Sizes: The MPEG-4
The advantage of the MP4 player's technology is that the video files are played in DVD quality at less than 1 Mbps (through a broadband connection). With a MP4 player, one can take videos through an Internet connection and watch them immediately in perfect quality. Lower MP versions can be played in the player, such as audio MP3 files.

The MPEG4:
MPEG4 is a compressed video produced by the software created by Microsoft called Codec, a software program that can decode and encode digital streams. MP4 files was created due to the joint effort of a large number of researchers focused on reducing the size of large, cumbersome music and video files into smaller ones to provide more disk space. With this smaller sized format, you now have to option to store more music and video files on your disk space and playing them over different MP4 media players is not a problem anymore. You just have to download the latest configuration of the MP4 media players to view your MPEG4 files. You now have the option of not deleting any of your old video and music files to make way for newer ones.

With the advent of MPEG4 or MP4, the storage of music and videos on a hard disk has really changed for the better. MPEG4 or MP4 has been hailed as the prevailing music and video file in the market today. The iPod itself encourages the use of the MPEG4 of MP4 files for video and music and nowadays there are some other MP4 players available too. It was believed that MPEG4 is limited only to video files but this is not so. Music files in the same form may also be made available and this is evident in Apple's online music store, the iTunes. Videos in the MPEG4 format are being sold online in their website and it has reaped a thousand followers to date. Maybe in the few years to come, audio files can also be converted to MPEG4, saving up on the disk space you need. This is the reason why Apple's iPod can store up to 20,000 songs and 100 hours of video with just 80 GB of disk space.

There are video converters available online where you could manually convert your own videos to the MPEG4 file format. This can help you considerably save up on disk space and can help you store more files. You can even load them on your own iPod for a more portable use of your music and your videos. The choice is just up to you.