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AlexeyS
26th February 2005, 10:14
What do you think about this?

DivX and WMV9 make very very blurry picture - I hate these codecs. They make DVD-like movie from HDTV source...

I like VP6 - it's encode good and picture is very sharp.

What about Xvid, Nero Digital? Are there any other codecs good for HDTV (except MPEG2)?
buzzqw
26th February 2005, 11:04
High Digital ?

Don't use a too much compression codec.

Use Huffy :D

BHH
AlexeyS
26th February 2005, 12:14
Originally posted by buzzqw
[B]High Digital ?
Don't use a too much compression codec.
Didn't understand what you mean... :confused:
What is High Digital?
The Geek
26th February 2005, 13:34
Maybe he meant High Definition. But I actually don't know.

I've read that AVC will probably be chosen for future HDTV broadcasting, and HD-DVD or BluRay or whatever, so I guess that codec is a good one for HDTV (though I have to admit, I've never used it).

The Geek
neuron2
26th February 2005, 15:40
Please edit your title to conform to forum rule 12. Thank you.

"Do not ask what's best."
unmei
26th February 2005, 15:40
Indeed AVC (aka h.264) is a promising codec, but if you are going to use it now you need to understand that the current implementations are all relatively young. IMO it is already pretty useful for lowbitrate encodes, but for high quality encodes it can't yet compete with XviD. You'll find talk about it in the "new codecs" section of the forum.
cypher_soundz
26th February 2005, 16:56
Real looks pretty nice, there are some semi old trailers over at http://dark.pluridis.org/trailers/ to take a look at.
But i would have to go with XviD (Custom matrix etc) , have you read this thread? http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74477
I wouldn't say that was really blury.
Regards
cyph
Sirber
26th February 2005, 17:08
XviD is the best codec so far I've seen for HD material quality vs bitrate. It decodes pretty well on mid-range CPU also (using fdfshow). RV10 is quite nice too, but very heavy at decoding (my AMD64 3000+ can't do it realtime).

All my Very High Q at very high bitrate were done with XviD with excellent results :D
AlexeyS
28th February 2005, 09:54
Originally posted by neuron2
Please edit your title to conform to forum rule 12. Thank you.
"Do not ask what's best."
What title I can rename to?
AlexeyS
28th February 2005, 09:55
Originally posted by Sirber
XviD is the best codec so far I've seen for HD material quality vs bitrate. It decodes pretty well on mid-range CPU also (using fdfshow). RV10 is quite nice too, but very heavy at decoding (my AMD64 3000+ can't do it realtime).

All my Very High Q at very high bitrate were done with XviD with excellent results :D
I've tried just DVD video and VP6 is the best (for me).
Did you try this codec on HD video?
Wilbert
28th February 2005, 10:01
What title I can rename to?
Use your imagination. You can rename it to 'Good HDTV codec?', or something like that.
Sirber
28th February 2005, 16:23
Originally posted by AlexeyS
I've tried just DVD video and VP6 is the best (for me).
Did you try this codec on HD video? Yes. Tryed XviD, VP6, RV10.

Movies: Matrix (4.1mbps) and Gladiator (3.7mbps)

Quality wise:
XviD > RV10 > VP6

Decoding Speed wise:
VP6 > XviD > RV10

I used RV10 coz VFW codecs were crashing on gladiator :(