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Which MPEG-4 Video codec is your choice?

DivX 5
[ 21 ] (12.4%)
DivX 4 (opendivx)
[ 0 ] (0%)
XviD
[ 129 ] (76.3%)
3ivX
[ 1 ] (0.6%)
libavcodec
[ 5 ] (3%)
Other
[ 13 ] (7.7%)

Total Members Voted: 225

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Which MPEG-4 Video codec is your choice?

Which MPEG-4 video codec you consider it is the best?
My choice is XviD.

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Which MPEG-4 video codec you consider it is the best?
My choice is XviD.
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Wmv9 is not compatible with the mpeg4 standard. From the current crop xvid is my choice, but i'm waiting for a good h.264 implementation (that's also mpeg-4).

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Currently I use DivX 5.

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this is not a simply straightforward question; first has to defined what best really is

i guess somewhere between ffvfw (why is it not in the options and WMV9 is???  )/DivX/XviD
"We cannot win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."

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Which MPEG-4 video codec you consider it is the best?
My choice is XviD.
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Wmv9 is not compatible with the mpeg4 standard. From the current crop xvid is my choice, but i'm waiting for a good h.264 implementation (that's also mpeg-4).
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I am stupid becuase i saw an encoding option "ISO-MPEG4"  at Windows media encoder 9...

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[span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%']Fixed: WMV9 -> libavcodec[/span]
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Or maybe your words.

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I choose xvid because it easy to use(?)  , Dual pass first pass video analyzing is very fast (GMC off, VHQ mode: 1 Mode decision), second pass also(~12fps), help me to reduce some monster-size video(1 minute 43 second = 99MB) to 18MB, nearly keep all quality...
But it have bug  (most recent build), the encoding option "interlaced encoding", anybody try it before?

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But it have bug  (most recent build), the encoding option "interlaced encoding", anybody try it before?
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What bug have you found? You do know that this option is not for deinterlacing but just makes for encoding interlaced video properly?

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I may be the only one to think so, but a video I encoded with XviD had more visual artifacts than the same one encoded in DivX. I wonder why that is so.

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But it have bug  (most recent build), the encoding option "interlaced encoding", anybody try it before?
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What bug have you found? You do know that this option is not for deinterlacing but just makes for encoding interlaced video properly?
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I don't know how describe the problem, it's a visual artifact, but i'm sure the source video i use is interlaced. Let's say a single red color line in the picture, if i use the option "interlaced encoding", the line will become blur, or blocky.

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Xvid is best IMHO. I will switch to H.264 when a good implementation appear sometime next year though.

The current H.263 is sadly not very good..

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I don't know how describe the problem, it's a visual artifact, but i'm sure the source video i use is interlaced. Let's say a single red color line in the picture, if i use the option "interlaced encoding", the line will become blur, or blocky.
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Hummm, is the artefact visible if you load the video into VDub, too?
And the source is DVD?
In that case, please post a snapshot of the source-frame and XviD-frame.

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I may be the only one to think so, but a video I encoded with XviD had more visual artifacts than the same one encoded in DivX. I wonder why that is so.
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Can you post the xvid encoder setting and the video source information at this forum? 
May be somebody can solve your problem...

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Hummm, is the artefact visible if you load the video into VDub, too?
And the source is DVD?
In that case, please post a snapshot of the source-frame and XviD-frame.

Yes, but the source is MPEG1 video, resolution is 640x480, ~7772kbps.
Snapshot will wait someone to help me.
t.g.deck, are you one of the doom9 forum moderator?

Now is DivX 5.2, i encode the same video clip with Preserve interlace, Progressive and De-interlaced, but nothing difference between them. 
But , Divx Produce some ugly pictures...

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I use DivX 5 (with 3 pass encoding)
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Reply #14 –
lavc via MEncoder on OS X

i use one preferred switch which works great with my divx-player and gives great quality from most DVD

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i use DivX Pro 5.2.1 and 3ivx D4 4.5.2 fc 2.1
(1-pass quality, quantizer=2, all keyframes, H263 quantization)
they are very good quality and fast

WMV9 VCM is also very good but much too slow
REALmagicMPEG-4VideoCodec is good

i hate xvid

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xvid

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i hate xvid
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Why you hate xvid? Hard to use? Quality problem?

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I chose DivX 5. IMO, it provides an easy-to-use interface, while having still enough options to customize the encoding according to ones wishes and videos.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.  -Isaac Asimov

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i use DivX Pro 5.2.1 and 3ivx D4 4.5.2 fc 2.1
(1-pass quality, quantizer=2, all keyframes, H263 quantization)
they are very good quality and fast


for real?  why not just keep the DV files?  you're throwing away virtually all the benefits of MPEG-4 in one fell swoop.  and your files must be huge.

i put it to you that xvid at Q2, I-frames only will be visually indistinguishible from divx pro at Q2, I-frames only, when played through the same decoder.

i'm an xvid user - my machine simply isn't fast enough for ffdshow/vfw (or i haven't found the right settings), and divx infects my computer, which i'd rather keep as my own.  i'll take open over non-open as a matter of principle even if i get less quality (which i believe isn't the case, but i haven't done any video-ABX tests to verify this, and i couldn't be arsed downloading divx pro and getting a bunch of spyware).

i decode everything i can with ffdshow, of course.

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and i couldn't be arsed downloading divx pro and getting a bunch of spyware).
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There is no spyware anymore in DivX 5.2 so go ahead and ABX...
"We cannot win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."

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i stand corrected

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[...]and your files must be huge.

Using "all keyframes" must be nice for seeking, but is essentially MJPEG.  Also, at 640x480 you're talking about ~10MB/sec.  Hatred sure is a powerful force to make a guy resort to that.
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why not just keep the DV files?
i don't have DV files, i convert captured videos (huffyuv) from TV
i can't keep the huffyuv files, they are too big (~500 MB for 1 minute 640x480)

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your files must be huge.
no, 30-45 MB for 1 minute 640x480

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Using "all keyframes" must be nice for seeking
yes, that is why i use all keyframes and play the files with MS ActiveMovie ActiveX Control (copy AMOVIE.OCX from Windows ME CD, in WIN_19.CAB)
i do a lot of seeking and with all keyframes, i can seek very fast, no waiting, seek at the exact frame # i want, seek 1 frame forward or 1 frame back.

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but is essentially MJPEG
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Also, at 640x480 you're talking about ~10MB/sec.
not 10 MB/sec
0.5 to 0.85 MB/sec

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Reply #24 –
to each their own...

any reason for the activex stuff?  i'm a little confused as to why a regular media player isn't enough.  is it a sort of home-brewed NLE app you're using?  i just run everything through either avisynth or premiere or both, but i don't really do anything except for DVD backup/authoring, filtering experiments and editing student films.

mpeg-4 I-frame only will be pretty similar to MJPEG, though the huff coding will be much more efficient.

hmm... would divx/xvid be fast enough to capture to?  I-frame only takes a huge load off the encoding process - there's no motion search needed, no scenechange detection, and no GOP management.  i'd imagine you'd get good capping speeds with Xvid (don't know about divx as i stopped using it long ago).