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First of all, a little background on my experiences. As you may or may not know, I have been in film school for about a year now and have edited a dozen or so short films. In addition to authoring these films to DVD, I've also encoded my HD projects in H.264 using Final Cut Studio 2's Compressor application. Other than my own films, I've accumulated a lot of MPEG-4 HD programming from my DVR that has been transfered to my HTPC.
I've recently set up Vista's Media Center on my HTPC along with FFDShow/Haali Splitter/etc. to optimize video playback of any and all formats that are on my PC. What I've noticed though, is that playback of HD MPEG-4 content seems to be a lot more stressful on my system than a comparable HD MPEG-2 file. In fact, I haven't really gotten it to play back correctly on my system yet. Episodes of The Office that I've transfered over from my DVR (.TS files) play back perfectly in PowerDVD, but don't play right in Media Player Classic, Media Center, and VLC, if at all.
Has anyone else run into problems like this? I'm guessing that the problem has to do with FFDShow, but I could be wrong.
Regardless, I'm planning on converting all my MPEG-2 programming to H.264 to save on precious disk space. Is anyone else doing anything similar, or planning on releasing their stuff in H.264?
My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]