Yes, 3ivx is my favorite MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile codec.
You are right, with some tweaking it can look almost as good as H.
264, albeit at higher data rates. And it's good for older computers
with QT 6 players.
However, the tools in H.264 allow for much greater efficiency (i.e.:
given quality at a certain data rate, or equivalent quality at lower
data rate), which can be realized with its own tweaking. H.264 does
limit you to faster computers with QT7. We use 3ivx on our public site http://www.conncoll.edu/video/president/necn/necn.html
(I have to re-encode the above. My monitor was not calibrated, and
they came out too dark. And I had to compress from an already
compressed 1.5 mbps divx file that had strange interlace artifacts)
Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
They are not live. I'm streaming current video files.
But I'm using 3ivx Crush at the moment (fair disclosure: my app)
which appears to give near H.264 video quality.
I export into a folder with an applescript to hint the file.
