Better Codec

[Head Hunter]

I used to use Flask with Divx 4.11 until 2 days ago because it was easy to get 2-pass encoding to work. Now I use GKnot with the automatic 2-pass encoding and I was wondering which codec is better with respect to:
1. overall quality of a 1 CD rip
2. overall speed

Thanks for you opinion

[phaysonwulfe]

Are you are asking what the difference is between 4.11 and 4.12?

You should be able to find a development history log on divx.com. Which outlines the changes to 4.12

[Head Hunter]

I'm sorry I wasn't specific. I meant between Divx 3.11 alpha and Divx 4.11.

[cofferscuffs]

Quality is in the eye of the beholder at the moment (imho 3.11alpha SBC encodes are the best)... speed is roughly the same (unless you got a P4), even though they *promise* optimisations for AMD cpus. Other than that, DivX4 is a legal codec, and DivX 3.11alpha is a hack of MPEG4V3.

[Head Hunter]

I did my first movie today with Gordian Knot and I must say that the automatic 2-pass encoding with 3.11 alpha is the highest quality movie I've made, and it took about half the time to encode(from Flask.6 with Divx 4.11)

[Selur]

for me sometimes 3.11 and sometimes 4.x produces better quality,..
But the point for 4.x is not only his legallity, but also the fact that each Mpeg-4 Simple Profile Player should be able to play it ;)
So there's still hope for a hardware player ;)

Cu Selur