x264 Guide question

[dvd_maniac]

I was wondering if it is better to Use GordianKnot with x264 or Doom9's Megui? The x264 Guide still has GordianKnot as the frontend. Is this still the best way and a megui guide just has not been written yet?

[bond]

as i would say that avc should be placed in .mp4 (and if you use another audio format than aac or mp3 in .mkv) i would say that megui should be prefered

[Doom9]

I agree with bond, AVC in MP4 is to be prefered over AVC in AVI. Hopefully by the time the appropriate hardware arrives, MP4 support will be a common thing. And the MeGUI guide will come, but I still have my PC patient (SN25P and X2, a long, sad and seemingly neverending story) to take care of.

[dvd_maniac]

And the MeGUI guide will come, but I still have my PC patient (SN25P and X2, a long, sad and seemingly neverending story) to take care of.

I've been following that sad story, sorry to hear it is not fixed yet.

Hopefully by the time the appropriate hardware arrives, MP4 support will be a common thing.

I have a media server and 3 client PCs and I do not plan on ever using a STB again. I use SageTV as a frontend.

Right now I use Nero Recode's AVC implementation and I was just curious about x264's speed in comparison. Also, Nero's low audio volume is getting VERY annoying.

Anyways, I hope you get the shuttle issue resolved and I will be looking foward to the MeGUI guide.

[bond]

you can also encode the audio seperately and than mux it with your avc stream

[Doom9]

well, I already posted some speed numbers in the news. I don't have the new avc commandline encoder currently in beta testing (it's the first one to be smp optimized) so I cannot compare the speed.