best vid compression???

WANGAN_X · Post by **WANGAN_X** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:36 am

my friend took a 20 min vid this weekend on the track, and its 458mb i used to have an awesome compressor, but, i guess i gotted rid of it please help me

Post by **complacent** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:55 am

H.264 is a pretty nice codec. I'm sure there are plenty of converters out there.

WANGAN_X · Post by **WANGAN_X** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:28 am

i still use klite... but i found the prog its called virtual dub if anyone else is interested

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:08 am

Also check out:

megui
MediaCoder <-- easier to use

WANGAN_X · Post by **WANGAN_X** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:15 am

i am trying out Super

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:45 am

Also decent from my experience. Most of em are just frontends to ffmpeg anyway.

Post by **Sabre** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:59 pm

I've used VirtualDub and AutoGK(which is for DVD's) for a long time. For good compression, go DivX. For a little better compression and cross platform compat fo XviD

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:08 pm

Sabre wrote:I've used VirtualDub and AutoGK(which is for DVD's) for a long time. For good compression, go DivX. For a little better compression and cross platform compat fo XviD

Eh these days h.264 is the standard for compression w/ quality but yeah if you are aiming for lower size divx will do that for ya.

Post by **Sabre** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:02 pm

Plus it depends on what you are playing them back on. Xvid can play back on just about anything, but H.264 is hellish on your CPU.... unless you get a codec for GPU decoding

WANGAN_X · Post by **WANGAN_X** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:16 am

unfortunately everyone in my car club has not recieved technology yet, so It will be divx AVI and then converted to WMV...

WRXWagon2112 · Post by **WRXWagon2112** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:16 am

Sabre wrote:... but H.264 is hellish on your CPU.... unless you get a codec for GPU decoding

QFT

This is why I don't like H.264 - it's faaaar too CPU-intensive. I would go with either Divx or Xvid. The added benefit of Divx is that some set-top DVD players can decode those files.

--Alan

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:29 am

WRXWagon2112 wrote:
Sabre wrote:... but H.264 is hellish on your CPU.... unless you get a codec for GPU decoding
QFT

This is why I don't like H.264 - it's faaaar too CPU-intensive. I would go with either Divx or Xvid. The added benefit of Divx is that some set-top DVD players can decode those files.

--Alan

LOL unless you're doing > 720p high bitrate it's not gonna hurt a modern CPU

Post by **complacent** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:44 pm

Phibs wrote:
WRXWagon2112 wrote:
Sabre wrote:... but H.264 is hellish on your CPU.... unless you get a codec for GPU decoding
QFT

This is why I don't like H.264 - it's faaaar too CPU-intensive. I would go with either Divx or Xvid. The added benefit of Divx is that some set-top DVD players can decode those files.

--Alan
LOL unless you're doing > 720p high bitrate it's not gonna hurt a modern CPU

QFT. Emphasis on "modern." If it'll run (damn well mind you!) on something as lowly as an apple tv.... then it has to be able to run on someone's computer.

I can see A's as well as J's points... but I'm not concerned as to how CPU/GPU intensive or inefficient it might be. If I'm going to go through the effort of converting to digital, I want teh quality to roxx0r my b0xxorz.

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks!

midnit · Post by **midnit** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:55 pm

H.264 is the wave of the future for internet video. Get on the bandwagon or get left behind.

I went to Adobe MAX 2007 this year and every workshop there was pushing H.264 and pretty soon all high end video on the web will be in this format. It supports transparency, and high def in considerably small file sizes (for what you're getting quality wise).

All of the video I rip off my vid camera gets compressed to H.264.

Demo of the codec @ 700KB/s here: www.gotawd.net

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:58 pm

midnit wrote:H.264 is the wave of the future for internet video. Get on the bandwagon or get left behind.

I went to Adobe MAX 2007 this year and every workshop there was pushing H.264 and pretty soon all high end video on the web will be in this format. It supports transparency, and high def in considerably small file sizes (for what you're getting quality wise).

All of the video I rip off my vid camera gets compressed to H.264.

Demo of the codec @ 700KB/s here: www.gotawd.net

Yeah that's my experience in the 'industry' as well. ( Streaming Operations )