Ouch, that is not good if QT7 H.264 is already showing inferior to
other codecs out there. Apple touted mpeg4 but never really became a
contender in that market. They've been hyping H.264 harder then ever
and if other H.264 encoders do a better job then they're missing the
boat big time.
I'm personally upset that QT7 doesn't offer any type of deinterlacing
options even though QT7 has the capability to deinterlace DV footage on
playback.
Are there any H.264 players that can play Quicktime encoded H.264 files
on windows?
Ryan
On May 20, 2005, at 11:04 AM, harry wrote:
Ryan
Although I have posted some H.264 comparison site info here before -
which favoured Nero/Ateme's quality over QT7 - these tests are not
extensive. At the same time WIMP9 seems to be inferior to Nero/Ateme's
HP h.264/AVC. Dooms 9's Codec forum is "member collectively" testing
different H.264/AVC codecs. There are also extensive discussions at
Doom of QT7's features or lack of specific features in comparison to
other codecs. One would think that the environment right now would be
perfect timing for Quicktime to go "all out" to produce the absolute
best H.264 codec - and just eliminate the competition.
Did you compare quality? I would personally rather have it take
longer and look better. In the past quicktime MPEG4 encoding did not
look as sharp or clean (less artifacts) than even other free mpeg4
encoders such as Divx. I think apple spent a LOT of time and energy
making an amazing H.264 encoder. I have tested the quality to others
and the others don't come close.
I do have to say it does take a LONG TIME to dualpass encode clips,
but the results are stunning and nothing else has come close to this.
