Reviving An Old Debate.....

[Piano]

Yes, VLC media player (recommended for x264) supports Win, Mac and most builds of Linux without having to install codecs.

Alright, Linux have VLC Media Player by itself. Macs can use QuickTime. But Windows still need to install a player. We can take this into consideration without installing any codec but player.

Should we start doing H.264? Need some talking..

[chooks]

Being a Mac user, I'd rather use VLC than Quicktime because QT doesn't like some xvids/avi's. VLC will play these no worries so I just stick with the one player - VLC. (For my VP mpg's i use QT though, it's easy because it's set as the default player for them).

You could always offer both formats like the current mpg/m2v options.

[crash]

Yep. I agree. Lets just have x264 as an additional video format on top the current mpg and m2v formats. Then, everyone will be happy.

[hamed_ostovar]

Yep. I agree. Lets just have x264 as an additional video format on top the current mpg and m2v formats. Then, everyone will be happy.

I did some videos with x264, The size avrage was 70-80 mb. I think it's a big size for download.

[hamed_ostovar]

personally, I don't like H.264. It's good but just for archiving source files.

[crash]

personally, I don't like H.264. It's good but just for archiving source files.

Is H.264 the same as x264? My ipod supports H.264 videos.

[hamed_ostovar]

Is H.264 the same as x264? My ipod supports H.264 videos.

hey hey I don't know shit about x264 .. The format I worked with,
was h.264

[BHead]

hey hey I don't know shit about x264 .. The format I worked with,
was h.264

First off, I don't like that kind of profanity on these forums. Hah jk.

Also, x264 compresses to about the same size as XviD, but it yields much higher quality then XviD, which is why it is superior.

H.264 is a quicktime format I believe, unless your talking about an AVC .mkv container.

[Frenchy]

Ok Time for school noobs.. :P
H.264 is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 10
and the software encoder x264 is used in most instances.

While MPEG-4 ASP is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 2
and most software encoders used in this instance is XviD or DivX.

Therefore x264 > XviD

as for containers go .mkv is Matroska's container and IMHO the greatest
but with no standardisation it hasn't received any support on consumer hardware.
eg. DVD Players which feature DivX.
Matroska is completely open source and easy to use.

Also note that H.264 IS x264.

[hamed_ostovar]

Ok Time for school noobs.. :P
H.264 is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 10
and the software encoder x264 is used in most instances.
While MPEG-4 ASP is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 2
and most software encoders used in this instance is XviD or DivX.
Therefore x264 > XviD
Also note that H.264 IS x264.

Thanks Frenchy. It was complete.

[crash]

Ok Time for school noobs.. :P
H.264 is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 10
and the software encoder x264 is used in most instances.

While MPEG-4 ASP is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 2
and most software encoders used in this instance is XviD or DivX.

Therefore x264 > XviD

as for containers go .mkv is Matroska's container and IMHO the greatest
but with no standardisation it hasn't received any support on consumer hardware.
eg. DVD Players which feature DivX.
Matroska is completely open source and easy to use.

Also note that H.264 IS x264.

The master is here to enlighten us.

[BHead]

Ok Time for school noobs.. :P
H.264 is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 10
and the software encoder x264 is used in most instances.

While MPEG-4 ASP is a codec for video compression or MPEG-4 Part 2
and most software encoders used in this instance is XviD or DivX.

Therefore x264 > XviD

as for containers go .mkv is Matroska's container and IMHO the greatest
but with no standardisation it hasn't received any support on consumer hardware.
eg. DVD Players which feature DivX.
Matroska is completely open source and easy to use.

Also note that H.264 IS x264.

I feel like a n00b...

Matroska is very popular with HD videos, because of it's compression rate. Although in order to play them, you have to either download VLC (which sometimes doesn't work with them) or you have to install ffdshow which has just about every codec you could ever want in one package.

[crash]

I feel like a n00b...

Matroska is very popular with HD videos, because of it's compression rate. Although in order to play them, you have to either download VLC (which sometimes doesn't work with them) or you have to install ffdshow which has just about every codec you could ever want in one package.

I recommend that you get k-lite codec pack. Just google it.

[BHead]

I recommend that you get k-lite codec pack. Just google it.

Ironically that's what I have installed! I forgot that that is the codec pack. LOL!

[hamed_ostovar]

k-lite codec pack is a great one.