The RipGuard technology would defeat the most popular of the ripping programs, Macrovision's Gervin said, by tinkering with the format of DVDs to make it impossible to extract data quickly from the discs.
However, I didnt mention it as an existing solution because it is not near completion. Quoth the VLC website: "BIG FAT WARNING: x264 is still in early development stage"
It may not be near completion, but it's inferior only to Nero as far as the current crop of AVC codecs go. It has a nearly complete featureset for the original three AVC profiles, so by "early development", all that's meant is that it hasn't been tuned as extensively as more mature codecs. It shouldn't be ruled out on those grounds alone.
By avi I'm referring to the vfw-based container that we've all come to love/hate and use profusely regardless.
AFAIK the usage problems with mp3 are the same as those with XviD and other MPEG codecs, but I could be wrong here. I do know, however, that Vorbis can't be used in avi due to technical limitations of the much-outdated format.
its cross platform, compression is very decent without out quality loss, and its free.
Same goes for RV10, though, except "very decent" quality becomes "very good" quality. Not to say XviD with good postprocessing doesn't hold a candle, but there is a significant gap.
"WMP support" is already available as there are several directshow splitters and decoders around. VideoLAN's support is almost complete, the only essential things it lacks are deblocking for b-frames and the new high profile stuff.
For video compression, whether you use MPEG-4 or Ogg, go with XVID.
XviD in Ogg isn't part of any standard at all, has no promise of continual support (Illiminable only includes support for Tobias' hack out of courtesy), and otherwise contradicts the intent of your post.
Just FYI:|
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Momentarily dismissing the fact that they would have had to survive absolute zero and uninhibited intergalactic radiation, yes.
The RipGuard technology would defeat the most popular of the ripping programs, Macrovision's Gervin said, by tinkering with the format of DVDs to make it impossible to extract data quickly from the discs.
So much for fast forward.
Did it have to be "fallout"?
However, I didnt mention it as an existing solution because it is not near completion. Quoth the VLC website: "BIG FAT WARNING: x264 is still in early development stage" It may not be near completion, but it's inferior only to Nero as far as the current crop of AVC codecs go. It has a nearly complete featureset for the original three AVC profiles, so by "early development", all that's meant is that it hasn't been tuned as extensively as more mature codecs. It shouldn't be ruled out on those grounds alone.
RV10 > WMV9 > MPEG-1 That's the rule.
Of course. MPlayer can play pretty much everything ever.
QT's MPEG-4 codec is actually pretty terrible in comparison to XviD and (to a lesser extent) DivX.
By avi I'm referring to the vfw-based container that we've all come to love/hate and use profusely regardless.
AFAIK the usage problems with mp3 are the same as those with XviD and other MPEG codecs, but I could be wrong here. I do know, however, that Vorbis can't be used in avi due to technical limitations of the much-outdated format.
it does not exactly create a very compatible file with the other mpeg decoders
Yes it does -- that's the point of the standard. If it didn't it wouldn't be called MPEG-4.
its cross platform, compression is very decent without out quality loss, and its free.
Same goes for RV10, though, except "very decent" quality becomes "very good" quality.
Not to say XviD with good postprocessing doesn't hold a candle, but there is a significant gap.
Thus, when H.264 encoders become availible
They've been available for some time...
NeroDigital
x264
VideoSoft
Moonlight
Sorenson
Reference encoder
And those are just off the top of my head.
"WMP support" is already available as there are several directshow splitters and decoders around. VideoLAN's support is almost complete, the only essential things it lacks are deblocking for b-frames and the new high profile stuff.
For video compression, whether you use MPEG-4 or Ogg, go with XVID. XviD in Ogg isn't part of any standard at all, has no promise of continual support (Illiminable only includes support for Tobias' hack out of courtesy), and otherwise contradicts the intent of your post. Just FYI :|
Why not just use AVI with mp3? OGM is a hack as far as formats go.