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dstarfire
16th January 2008, 04:02
Are any of the modern codecs particularly well suited to encoding Anime-style content, when video quality and speed of encoding are more important than file size? (I already know what to use for small, lousy-looking videos)

Currently I've been using h.264 in mp4 simply because I've found an easy guide for it, and the subjective comparison I found rated that best for quality/compression among the codecs I was considering.
Dark Shikari
16th January 2008, 04:15
x264 is the best for anime, by a gigantic margin.
Hard Core Rikki
16th January 2008, 06:17
RealVideo is actually the neatest (for low bitrate encodes), but seeing how it's not easily re-editable (playback 'issues', lower compatibility with media players and similar inconveniences) , and actually cumbersome for , x264 wins.
Dark Shikari
16th January 2008, 06:33
RealVideo is actually the neatest (for low bitrate encodes), but seeing how it's not easily re-editable (playback 'issues', lower compatibility with media players and similar inconveniences) , and actually cumbersome for , x264 wins.I guarantee I can beat any RV10 encode you give me with x264 :p
dstarfire
17th January 2008, 03:15
*L* I've actually got several rmvb's, and have come to despise the format; mostly because of player compatibility issues and the generally poor video quality (even for anime content).

Guess I'll just keep sticking with x.264, then, even if it does take hours for a single 30-minute episode. ;/ guess that's what i get for sticking with a measly 1.5 gig processor.
Dark Shikari
17th January 2008, 03:26
*L* I've actually got several rmvb's, and have come to despise the format; mostly because of player compatibility issues and the generally poor video quality (even for anime content).

Guess I'll just keep sticking with x.264, then, even if it does take hours for a single 30-minute episode. ;/ guess that's what i get for sticking with a measly 1.5 gig processor.You can always use faster settings with x264. x264 can go from extremely fast (few/no partitions, few/one ref, etc--faster than real-time) to extremely slow (ESA SATD, RCRD, ME-prepass--slower than 0.2 FPS).