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Video Codec Comparison

Posted by timothy on from the comprehensitivity dept.

FonkiE writes "Doom9 wrote a good article: After more than 3 weeks of work and no free time during that period it has been done: The latest codec comparison is online. 7 codecs have been put through one of the hardest tests in the history of codec testing. The results: find out on your own ;) I had planned to change the presentation somewhat but certain events (forum problems and such) prevented me from completing this for the release. I plan to eventually supply an updated version of the comparison."

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  1. Re:For my fellow ADD'ers by rmull · · Score: 0, Troll

    ooh! shiny! *poing*

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  2. Re:Doom9 is my hero, dvd2svcd owns you. by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 0, Troll

    It may be open source, but it's not free (as in beer). There are patents on mpeg4, so no implementation can be fully legal without paying royalties. I'm not even sure it's completely legal to even have a GPL mpeg4 codec. It's the same situation as with mp3 and Lame, and it has the same solution: Ogg. Ogg Theora, in particular (and perhaps Ogg Tarkin in the far future). I was really hoping the next doom9 codec comparison would include Ogg Theora, so everyone could see how it stacked up to the likes of Xvid. Doom9 is the only place I know of that really compares video codecs in a halfway impartial way. I guess we have to wait even longer now to find out if VP3 is any good.

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