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farjami
1st August 2006, 11:27
how can i find a comparison between codecs?

really i am tired from containers and i am looking for a wide container that has all of other containers feature
is there any benchmark available?
quake74
1st August 2006, 11:50
how can i find a comparison between codecs?

May I suggest http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-203-1.htm ?

really i am tired from containers and i am looking for a wide container that has all of other containers feature
is there any benchmark available?

I am not sure what kind of benchmark you would do on different containers, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats is a start. To me the most important feature is on how many devices can I read it, and so AVI wins by far, and MP4 is a distant second. If you will always use a computer, then my preference would go to MKV (since it doesn't restrict your choice of codecs):
foxyshadis
1st August 2006, 12:24
Er, the 2005 comparison (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-05-1.htm) is probably more useful than one nearly 3 years old.
quake74
1st August 2006, 12:55
Er, the 2005 comparison (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-05-1.htm) is probably more useful than one nearly 3 years old.

Argh, my bad, I messed up copy/paste. I wanted to paste http://www.doom9.org/codec-comparisons.htm which is a list of the 2002-2005 comparisons.
vlada
1st August 2006, 14:56
how can i find a comparison between codecs?

really i am tired from containers and i am looking for a wide container that has all of other containers feature
is there any benchmark available?

Are you looking for container or codec comparison?

If you're interested in container try these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats
http://www.divxland.org/container_formats.php

I think all people here will agree that the best container format is Matroska. It has clear and open specifications. It supports almost all audio/video formats and it is widely supported by video processing applications.
bond
1st August 2006, 19:38
there is no best container, it all depends on what _you_ want...