On Tuesday 12 December 2006 22:57, Thomas Rösner wrote: > Without going into too much detail, that's something different. XviD is > a dialect of MPEG-4. H.264 is a different, newer standard. MPEG-2 is yet > another standard used on DVD's (=ooold ;-)). Hardware players can do > MPEG-2, some can do DivX/some parts of MPEG-4 and XviD if you are > careful not to enable the advanced coding options. I know of none doing > H.264. > > Then there are containers: mp2 (only mpeg2), mp4 (only mpeg4), avi > (anything, but limited), ogg (anything), mkv (anything and more, not in > DVD::Rip last time I checked). > > If you don't care about HW players, you might find ogg a better > container format then avi (uses less space, audio/video don't get out of > sync as easily, multiple Audio tracks/subtitels supported...).
Thanks, I'll try ogg next to see if there is a difference on my laptop. I noticed that a lot of artifacts which are visible on the desktop (with its crt monitor) are not showing at all on the laptop. > Hm, or stay with avi, I don't want to confuse you. All of this is a bit > of voodoo. :) Tell me about it! It can be a bit daunting for the uninitiated. > > xvid is the default codec selection. I can't find h264 in the transcode > > options. > > ffmpeg does, it's a library providing different codecs. Thanks again for your help. :) -- Regards, Mick
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