Jetrell Fo said:

CapableMetal said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Anyways, the x264 format, this is a compressed format like DiVX or xVid? I haven't seen this version anywhere ..... any chance you can point folks to it for download and comparison?

x264 is a very popular library used for compressing to the MPEG-4 AVC format found on Blu-Ray and AVC discs, and a lot of steaming internet media found around these days. Most (if not all?) of the top freeware video encoders tend to use it for AVC encoding, so chances are most people who have encoded anything to AVC have used it, even if they haven't necessarily heard of it.

Bummer.........it doesn't sound like a very effective codec for projects like these.

When encoding for Blu-Ray, AVCHD, or PC containers like MKV or MP4, its really the best solution. Its just an encoder, it doesn't decode any video at all, and its also not a format as it adheres to the H.264/AVC specification.

Its the codec I'd choose for a final encode for everything but MPEG-2.