Mpeg1 custom frame size

Hello,
I do a lot of videos or video presentations for sales type people to use within powerpoint files. I usually supply clients with WMV files using flip4mac, which works well.
Occasionally I see mpeg1 muxed movies that are more than the default 320x240 frame sizes. My question is 2 part - 1. Is there a quicktime/compressor way to do this? 2. Any thoughts on whether mpeg1 is a superior way to supply movies for things like inserting into powerpoint presentations?
Thanks
Pete

That's pretty much the frame size of a MPEG-1 file, 320x240. There's a MPEG-1 file called Super Video (CD) that uses MPEG-2 compression for the MPEG-1 file. I think the frame size is 480x360. The video quality is still garbage. The reason you still see MPEG-1 files is that the format is still popular in India and Indonesia.
Use h.264 for your presentation. If you use MPEG-1 you'll hate the quality.
Open that MPEG-1 you have in Quicktime and see what the inspector window tells you what the format is.

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