On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Frank Fulchiero wrote:
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
Yeah, I was very impressed with your page and I hope to compare notes
in the future. We created 3ivx Crush for the purpose of converting
MPEG 2 files to .mov MPEG4 and right now, I'm testing its benefits
and limits with regards to creating media to be streamed. (An old
client of mine used to supply all their sample videos off a Media 100
Optibase as MPEG 2 and I needed a good solution and thus Crush was
born.)
(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)
As it appears that you have a fair amount of experience in the arena,
I'd like to see if your impression of divx matches mine. It appears
to me that divx is their version of H.264 video and MP3 audio in
their own wrapper. Does that sound accurate to you?
