[SOLVED]What is the best format...

[MadPumpkin]

I need to know what the best format is, for audio, video, image and 3D for a game. By best format I'm referring to being efficient quality AND compression, so maybe mostly lossless? I just ripped the entire audio from Altered Beast and am now actually attempting to rip images through recording and piecing. The 3D is just for future reference. Honestly I don't care if it has basically no compression, right now I just want the highest quality of these, and then maybe one that's reasonable compression as well. Thank you!

What I like right now is:
Video: .AVI
Audio: .OGG
Image: .TIF/.PNG

Feel free to second that motion?

[cypher1554R]

Depends for what you need it.
If I wanted to have music,.ogg would be ok, if I wanted to do audio fx, I would go with .wav.

Video format for game?
You mean like.. having video rendered to a texture surface or something like that.? I don't think that that's how it's done. Video formats usually hold audio data as well.. I mean, like I said. depends for what you need it.

You know what.. on second thought.. I don't think I understood the question :P

[MadPumpkin]

Alright thanks for the sound help! With the video I was referring to recording games, and retaining quality :P sorry for not explaining that one better >.<

[GroundUpEngine]

Sounds about right to me

Video: .AVI (i recall an OpenGL demo with .AVI)
Audio: .OGG, .WAV (sound fx)
Image: .PNG (alpha blending), .JPG

[dandymcgee]

.JPG

Only if you use a lossless format.

[MadPumpkin]

Alright cool, well thanks everyone :P

[wtetzner]

I need to know what the best format is, for audio, video, image and 3D for a game. By best format I'm referring to being efficient quality AND compression, so maybe mostly lossless? I just ripped the entire audio from Altered Beast and am now actually attempting to rip images through recording and piecing. The 3D is just for future reference. Honestly I don't care if it has basically no compression, right now I just want the highest quality of these, and then maybe one that's reasonable compression as well. Thank you!

What I like right now is:
Video: .AVI
Audio: .OGG
Image: .TIF/.PNG

Feel free to second that motion?

AVI and OGG are container formats, not codecs. Therefore, they are mostly unrelated to quality.

I assume with Ogg you mean Vorbis?

AVI can contain audio/video data using almost any codecs.
For example, you can use H.264 in an AVI container or an MP4 container.

I would say PNG is good for images and Ogg Vorbis should be good for audio. For video, H.264 gives good perceived quality/compression, although you might want to go with Theora, which (at least as far as anyone knows) is patent free. Theora is also typically used with the Ogg container format.