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I don't know what to make of that paragraph in the manuals of Canon's DSLRS, e.g. their 7D: "About MPEG-4 Licensing This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded...

I would like to start shooting video, on DSLR, and I haven't decided yet whether to buy a Canon or a Nikon. I have a very slight inclination towards Nikon, but: I understand that Nikon's DSLRs only offer exactly 24 frames per second, while the commonly used video frame rates are 23.976, 25, or...