Hi,
yesterday I read a newsline called "h.264" in a magazine. I`ve wondered me because they said, it makes mpeg1+mpeg2 files only a half/quarter of the size it would produce today. But only the hardware today is to slow. Anybody heard something else about? Or can somebody correct me if I`m wrong.
[Update]
For all who want to test the interesting new codec and maybe the future of MPEG goto Rarewares
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/ under the mpeg section
The source can be found at
hdot264 page
The project is still in very early development. So all who don`t want to test the codec may waste time because even with the fastest settings it still takes some minutes to encode a single frame. Also decoding is very buggy. But the result is amazing. All people should hope that this project gets continued because the potential is huge.
good settings for the encoder.cfg: (from Tommy Carrot, Selur)
-reference frames=1
-searchrange=8 (instead of 16)
-RDOptimization=0
-AdaptiveBlockTransforms = 0 (may result in crash, I have to set it to 2)
-NumberBFrames = 0 (disable)
decoder.cfg:
-move the file to C:\ or maybe the codec won`t find it
-set: 0 ........NAL mode
If your are still not able to decode the avi, use
yuv2avi to convert the yuv file to avi.
Use a low res to speed up the encoding!
@developers Please continue the good work! It`s worth doing so!