A video codec with the best compression

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A video codec with the best compression, Which one is it?

MusicLover View Member Profile	Apr 20 2007, 12:28 Post #1
Group: Members Posts: 327 Joined: 1-November 02 Member No.: 3669	I'm choosing a video codec for storing of my family videos (and sharing some of them in the Inernet as well) which format provides the best compression? I don't care about processor time and the quality should be avarage or just below (I have a cheap cam)

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smok3 View Member Profile	Apr 22 2007, 10:04 Post #2
A/V Moderator Group: Moderator Posts: 1666 Joined: 30-April 02 From: Slovenia Member No.: 1922	you cant beat the price anyway. edit: just playing around, here is a random clip from my disk encoded with 100 kbps (that would be super-low-bitrate), mute: http://tmp.somestuff.org/random.mp4 well, hard to say it looks great, but one can still see whats going on i guess full log: CODE started ned 22.04.2007 / 11:04:51,50 ECHO is off. x264 0.54.600 x264 --pass 1 --bitrate 100 --stats "F:\DIPLOMA\HD\prezentacijaHD_Diploma_spica.stats" --bframes 1 --subme 1 --analyse none --me dia --progress --no-psnr --filter "-2,-1" --output NUL "F:\DIPLOMA\HD\templateWEB_prezentacijaHD_Diploma_spica.avs" x264 --pass 2 --bitrate 100 --stats "F:\DIPLOMA\HD\prezentacijaHD_Diploma_spica.stats" --ref 5 --bframes 1 --subme 6 --b-rdo --analyse p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,p4x4 --progress --no-psnr --filter "-2,-1" --output "F:\DIPLOMA\HD\prezentacijaHD_Diploma_spica.avi.mp4" "F:\DIPLOMA\HD\templateWEB_prezentacijaHD_Diploma_spica.avs" MP4Box - GPAC version 0.4.1-DEV Jun 12 2006 compiled by Kurtnoise GPAC Copyright: (c) Jean Le Feuvre 2000-2005 (c) ENST 2005-200X ended ned 22.04.2007 / 11:06:55,64 Some info about the 1st track in container, usually video: Track # 1 Info - TrackID 1 - TimeScale 25 - Duration 00:00:19.000 Media Info: Language "Undetermined" - Type "vide" - Sub Type "avc1" - 475 samples Handler name: GPAC ISO Video Handler MPEG-4 Config Visual Stream - ObjectTypeIndication 0x21 AVC/H264 Video - Visual Size 512 x 288 - Profile Main @ Level 5.1 Decoding Buffer size 2838 - Average bitrate 95 kbps - Max Bitrate 228 kbps No stream dependencies for decoding StreamPriority 0 Computed info from media: Total size 233187 bytes - Total samples duration 19000 ms Average rate 95 kbps - Max Rate 228 kbps Some info about the 2nd track in container, usually audio: No track with ID 2 found This post has been edited by smok3: Apr 22 2007, 10:36 -------------------- PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8 NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung

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MusicLover A video codec with the best compression Apr 20 2007, 12:28

smok3 a. x246 (which is h.264 implementation) would be m... Apr 20 2007, 20:19

MusicLover smok3 Thanks a lot. What about file sizes in both ... Apr 21 2007, 06:29

Mangix erm. x264 is an encoder. H.264(or AVC) is the stan... Apr 21 2007, 07:58

smok3 MusicLover, file sizes are directly proportional t... Apr 21 2007, 17:32

MusicLover smok3 Thanks again! So, all the x264 encoders... Apr 21 2007, 20:13

smok3 x264 is only one (the implementation of h.264), h.... Apr 21 2007, 20:31

MusicLover which one of h.264 encoders is the best for low bi... Apr 21 2007, 20:40

smok3 well, i cant speak generally, with my tests, and w... Apr 21 2007, 20:55

Mangix i'd personally say x264 even though there are ... Apr 21 2007, 21:58

smok3 you cant beat the price anyway. edit: just playin... Apr 22 2007, 10:04

MusicLover WOW! that's cool! now I only need to m... Apr 22 2007, 11:44

smok3 yes, megui is one of them (comes with some nice co... Apr 22 2007, 12:01

MusicLover I'm now using SUPER... Megui refused to work s... Apr 23 2007, 09:15

smok3 QUOTE (MusicLover @ Apr 23 2007, 10:15) I... Apr 23 2007, 13:26

MusicLover http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html Apr 23 2007, 18:50

MusicLover smok3 how do you find it? Apr 24 2007, 10:12

MusicLover I'm puzzled: I cannot encode Sony DV files in ... Apr 24 2007, 20:10

penvzila The h264 section of this guide is very good: http... Apr 25 2007, 03:20

MusicLover My problem is that none of the programs that encod... Apr 25 2007, 06:58

MusicLover Done! Nero Recode regonizes it! I'm ha... Apr 25 2007, 07:10

smok3 it is explained on the link i posted few posts up ... Apr 25 2007, 08:08

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