Why is Billy's comment low ranked, people? He is completely correct; h.264 (and its friendly open source counterpart, x.264) is superior to XviD in every way at equivalent bitrates. With growing h.264 support, either higher quality/resolution video can be had at the same filesize as XviD, or the same quality can be had at significantly lower sizes.
This is why both next-gen DVD formats use a derivation of the h.264 codec for their compression (yes, Blu-ray and HDDVD are both compressed).
My guess is that people voted this down because XviD is a widespread format & they had not heard of h.264. XviD's ubiquity in no way make it the "best" codec.
Support for all is best. There are wingnuts out there encoding in all sorts of formats. I even saw a Real video file the other day. I almost did a spit take when I saw it.
'matter of fact, xvid has a lot going for it still. Despite the fact that h264 codecs [such as the apple one, or x264] will undoubtedly deliver higher quality at lower bitrates, they take like 2-5 times the time to encode =[, and require a much faster system to play back on. that's really not a problem, but you cant play them at all on that 400mhz in the cupboard.
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xvid is like totally crap; h.264 FTW.
Why is Billy's comment low ranked, people? He is completely correct; h.264 (and its friendly open source counterpart, x.264) is superior to XviD in every way at equivalent bitrates. With growing h.264 support, either higher quality/resolution video can be had at the same filesize as XviD, or the same quality can be had at significantly lower sizes.
This is why both next-gen DVD formats use a derivation of the h.264 codec for their compression (yes, Blu-ray and HDDVD are both compressed).
My guess is that people voted this down because XviD is a widespread format & they had not heard of h.264. XviD's ubiquity in no way make it the "best" codec.
@Josh -
Support for all is best. There are wingnuts out there encoding in all sorts of formats. I even saw a Real video file the other day. I almost did a spit take when I saw it.
I for one welcome our new H.264 overlords
Hello! =)
I'm saying hellp to xvid
@Josh Warne: x264 is an encoder. h264 and XviD are codecs. At least get your facts right before you criticize others.
'matter of fact, xvid has a lot going for it still. Despite the fact that h264 codecs [such as the apple one, or x264] will undoubtedly deliver higher quality at lower bitrates, they take like 2-5 times the time to encode =[, and require a much faster system to play back on. that's really not a problem, but you cant play them at all on that 400mhz in the cupboard.