x264 rules in 3d animation movies!!!!!!!

[Chaos Creator]

I've decided to make some small tests with VP7, x264, xvid and theora in very low bitrates (640x336 - 300 kbps)! My source was the "Robots" movie! I wanted to see how good can these codecs work in a 3d animation movie. After some tests I decided to remove the xvid and theora screenshots from the competition, because the results were terrible with these 2 codecs, especially with theora!!! So I am going to post only the VP7 (7.0.8.0) and x264 (293) screenshots!

I used 2-pass encoding!
Here are the settings:

VP7
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9875/vp7settings7pa.png

x264
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5070/x264setting7qk.png

Here are the screenshots I took:

Set 1:
original (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5707/original7bp.png)
VP7 (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6910/vp71wz.png)
x264 (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/792/x2649rz.png)

Set 2:
original (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5422/original4er.png)
VP7 (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/466/vp722gl.png)
x264 (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1774/x26425to.png)


I didn't use any postprocessing with x264!
I tried to set the best settings in VP7's decoder filter so that I can have the best possible result!

MY conclusion:
As you can see, x264 is much better than VP7, at least in this 3d animation movie! x264 can keep more detail than VP7!


A VERY BIG THANKS to all the people who work in x264! :D :D Keep up the good work! You are the BEST!!! :D :D :D ;)

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

Well,that's normal,anyone can tell you that.Are you the begginer in video compression?

[IRMA1024]

well.. eventough x264 outperform VP7, that is still not the best settings for x264... try "--ref 8 --subme 6 --me umh"

[JimiK]

First I have to approve to what IRMA1024 posted. Also, never use (additional) postprocessing (I know you didn't). x264 has "built-in" postprocessing and more postprocessing will only do harm.
Another thing I have to say: This was a very dumb post by Kostarum Rex Persia.

[Chaos Creator]

I agree with you JimiK about what Kostarum Rex Persia said! I am not new in video compression. I am in the Game since 2001!

IRMA1024: I didn't want to use the ultimate compression settings, because first there was no need to use them (the improvement in quality is very small) and second I didn't want to push the codec to its very limits just to show you how much better, than any other codec around concerning this source, it is!!!! :p :p