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the best video/audio codec?

Postby DUXTUX » 13 May 2007 13:06

What are the top 5 video and audio codecsand why? (and formats)
Just curious.

What makes something good is good quality/size, easy/fast playback.
I wonder if there is much difference between subtitles....

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Re: the best video/audio codec?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 13 May 2007 13:26

What are the top 5 video and audio codecsand why? (and formats)
Just curious.

What makes something good is good quality/size, easy/fast playback.
I wonder if there is much difference between subtitles....
h264
mp4v
DIV3
theora
VC1

audio

Flac,
AAC,
MP3,
Vorbis,
AC3

subtitles
NONE :D

COntainers,
ts,
asf/wmv.


Why ?
Because they are widespread, high quality and have open source decoders.
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Postby CloudStalker » 13 May 2007 17:58

Hey hey, I think you're forgetting Xvid for video and wmal (which in my opinion is above FLAC in some ways) for audio, both of which VLC supports, kind of.

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 13 May 2007 20:46

Hey hey, I think you're forgetting Xvid for video and wmal (which in my opinion is above FLAC in some ways) for audio, both of which VLC supports, kind of.
Xvid is mpeg-4
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Postby MetalheadGautham » 30 May 2007 07:40

forgot mkv and mov containers? and what about Musepack & ATRAC Advanced Lossless along with Monkey's auio for audio compression?
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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 30 May 2007 10:07

Mov container is less good than mp4.
Mkv container is good but not enough spread in players and is a bit too complicated for 99% of the cases.

Atrac is horrible, Monkey's Audio has a stupid license and changes too often.
FLAC or ALAC are better.
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