Your Typical Compression

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:17 am

I avoid codec packs like the plague. Even ffdshow, which causes many problems, I barely tolerate. I've found that VLC player does a good job of playing anything I throw at it. Although I mainly use Media Player Classic since I prefer the interface and feature set better, for the occasional 120fps video, MKV, and h.264 MP4 file, VLC is indispensible.

Streicher · Post by **Streicher** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:24 pm

Somehow I can already imagine all the future 70+ MB h.264 encodes... >_>

With all the excuses like, "I didn't know how to make it smaller.", "I wanted the best picture possible (from that crappy fansub/RAW source)" and "Everybody has broadband, why should I make it smaller?"

The anime-leechers made the transmission from Divx to xvid. They will do it to h.264 if they have something they really want to see. Then they will look themselves or whine until it they can play it.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:26 pm

Do you have a problem with high quality, near DVD like video?

RamonesFan2020204 · Post by **RamonesFan2020204** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:11 pm

One video I did, I made an XviD version and a WMV version, and they both looked exactly the same in terms of visual and sound quality, the XviD version was just at a lower resolution and took up more (a ridiculous amount) of file space, which is completely unnecessary.

Chibi war · Post by **Chibi war** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:20 pm

Making an XviD compression is a bit more complicated then just selecting XviD as compression you know, then it'll indeed look like an average WMV and will take up a ridicilous amount of extra space. Try the AVTech how-to guide from here. ^^

RamonesFan2020204 · Post by **RamonesFan2020204** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:35 pm

Chibi war wrote:Making an XviD compression is a bit more complicated then just selecting XviD as compression you know, then it'll indeed look like an average WMV and will take up a ridicilous amount of extra space. Try the AVTech how-to guide from here. ^^

No, you don't understand. I did it EXACTLY the way everyone else does, filters, compression and everything, and it looked EXACTLY THE SAME! I don't need a lower resolution and a larger file size, so why would I waste my time when I can just import it into WMM, and save it as a WMV that looks and sounds exactly the same, only it's at a wider resolution, and takes up alot less space?

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:40 pm

It is impossible for you to have encoded one file at a lower resolution than the other and then say they both visually looked the same. Since one should have looked LIKE IT WAS AT A LOWER RESOLUTION.

As demonstrated in other threads, you clearly just have no idea how to encode.

RamonesFan2020204 · Post by **RamonesFan2020204** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:01 pm

I don't care. I like my videos at 720 x 480, and taking up the least amount of hard drive space possible.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:20 pm

RamonesFan2020204 wrote:No, you don't understand. I did it EXACTLY the way everyone else does...

if you did it exactly the same as everyone else, you wouldn't be using wmv

here are a few questions for you:

do you care what people think about your video and sound quality? do you care if people can play your videos? do ever want to be "good"? do you ever want to win a contest?

if any of those are "yes" maybe you should stop doing whats "easy" and try figuring out why xvid isn't giving you the results everyong else is getting...

Pwolf

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed May 03, 2006 6:03 pm

In looking at his latest video from 2006-04-10, his encodes do indeed look like crap. It's also interlaced.
And why does he have projects listed, that have not premiered, are not downloadable, list no anime and list no music?

I think a mod needs to review his list. :/