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Comparing Codecs for 2004

Posted by michael on from the CGA-is-all-anyone-should-ever-need dept.

MunchMunch writes "Popular encoding/guide/news site doom9.org has just put up its codec shoot-out for 2004, comparing 3ivx 5.0, Divx Fusion 5.9 (prerelease 6.0), Nero Digital Main Profile and High Profile, RealVideo 10, On2 VP6, VideoSoft's VSS, Xvid 1.0, MS's WMV9 and, last, newcomer Jomingo's HDX4. The comparison covers the speed, accuracy, target-file-size-adherence and other aspects of the codecs -- but also lets you compare yourself via high- and low-bandwidth framegrabs of each codec with a nice zoomable image-swap script."

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  1. Wow by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 3, Funny
    but also lets you compare yourself via high- and low-bandwidth framegrabs of each codec with a nice zoomable image-swap script
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  2. What no FLC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm an Amiga user, where is FLC you incensitive clod?

    1. Re:What no FLC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm a clod and I find this post highly offensive!!!!

  3. Re:snow is better and mplayer supports it now! by Trillan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, when I was young, we used to twiddle the rabbit ears for hours to try to get rid of snow.

  4. Re:Time to move on? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You kids and your divx and mpeg2, back in my day we used flip books made of papyrus and we liked it!

  5. Re:The Problem with WMV9 video by Space+Coyote · · Score: 4, Funny
    on the Mac, the only player that supports it (Windows Media Player for Mac OS X) lacks so many features such as drag-n-drop support, displayal of the file's name during playback, AVI, MPEG, and MP3 support, etc.

    I'd just like to say that "displayal" is the greatest made-up word ever.

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  6. Re:Winner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your problem is that your name isn't Roland Pickypail.

  7. Re:nobody seems to have heard of this codec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... except SNOW doesn't work on Atari ST/E [at least my MC68000 with TOS 1.4].

    I was trying to encode the DavesLanParty dvd with it [it was handy] and it segfaulted on the first frame.

    In fact the mplayer crew largely ignore Atari alltogether which pisses me off as several months ago I offered shell accounts on my STE box (8mhz 4M) just so they could actually get to adding proper support !.

    For instance, the STE has no MMX, no 3dNOW and no SSE [1 or 2] NONE of which a stock build of mplayer [up to pre8.785] will use. It's not like they changed how they work (just now you get 16 registers instead of 8). Even if they just stuck to the first 8 to keep it Jaguar compatible that would be loads better than using BASIC based routines for everything !.

    OSS is only as good as the developers. And well while mplayer is coming along it still lacks some proper support for Atari STE which is rather annoying.

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