DivX 6 or Xvid 1.13

ffxdean · Post by **ffxdean** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:03 am

Which is better to use? I basically want to compress my movie to a extremely small size without losing too much quality.

Out of these 2 latest releases which one would you choose? btw please dont just say Xvid is better than DivX because its free

provide some reasons, as i am looking for the best one out there.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:35 am

x.264 is better than both of them

managed to make blue trailer roughly half the size of the xvid version

ffxdean · Post by **ffxdean** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:43 am

where can i find this x.264?

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:52 am

You will need something like mp4box, super, megui or mkvtoolnix to encode with a suitable container for that...a quick google search will find you all of those. mp4 containers are most preferable for AMVs at the mo.... and most pmps too.

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:54 am

sorry for the double post but just wanted to point out that you are in no way limited to those programs but seeing as you have never heard of x.264 I thought they were a good starting place

Wolfy2hk · Post by **Wolfy2hk** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:48 pm

ffxdean wrote:btw please dont just say Xvid is better than DivX because its free

Odd i thought that Divx was always free, i encode videos in that format but its known as DX50, unless you want pro which i tried out but didn't see much difference, Divx should be free but i would recommend Xvid since it compresses to a smaller file size but still retains good quality, Mp4. is also better but it takes too much time for me so i dont usually use it

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:26 am

A big reason - aside from the quality testing - that Xvid gets recommended is that it lays out options for MPEG-4 ASP which DivX restricts (either as a matter of discourse or because it only allows them in Pro versions). So in short, Xvid is simply more customizable.

x264 is an H.264 implementation - it is not related to DivX or Xvid at all, aside from H.264 also being part of MPEG-4. In it's case, MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (AVC) - DivX and Xvid are MPEG-4 Part 2, Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) encoders.

MP4 is a container, and it can hold ASP streams just as easily as it can H.264 - in reality, MP4 was the container they should have been stored in from the start, but there was too much scene reliance on AVI. While there are comparatively few AMVs or fansubs released in MP4 that use ASP streams instead of H.264, there are some nonetheless.

MeGUI (after installing, let it run update - it might be useful in the options to switch the update servers from 'Stable' to 'Development' to keep up with the latest version):
http://x264.nl/

MeGUI requires .NET 2.0 (link). It requires input in the form of AviSynth scripts, so AviSynth is obviously required as well.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:49 am

In reference to quality testing, here is the results page from Doom9's 2005 Codec Comparison:
http://www.doom9.org/codecs-final-105-4.htm#conclusion

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:00 am

.. four years ago, we said Xvid
.. however, I never found out "why" "my" encodes always fell apart!?!
.. Kim & Ron Climbing a Building - Wardrobe Malfunction.avi
.. if you look at the gradiated blue skies, you will notice its not smooth T_T -- why, what did I do wrong? .. I've been asking for the last 4 yours any I'm still confused.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:02 am

.. four years ago, we said Xvid
.. however, I never found out "why" "my" encodes always fell apart!?!
.. Kim & Ron Climbing a Building - Wardrobe Malfunction.avi
.. if you look at the gradiated blue skies, you will notice its not smooth T_T -- why, what did I do wrong?
.. I've been asking for the last 4 years and I'm still confused.

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