Your Typical Compression

Jayn_Newell · Post by **Jayn_Newell** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:21 pm

I've been using WMM so far, so it's all .wmv (I know I could change that, but I also know that all windows users will be able to watch that easily, so I keep it simple). When I switch editors, I'll probably switch to making them MPEG-2.

While I'm not aware of any problems with .rm as a filetype (and the small sizes are nice), the player you need to watch them blows chunks. I was not impressed to have to install it to watch a video for school last semester

doomer000 · Post by **doomer000** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:31 pm

greenjinjo wrote:
doomer000 wrote:I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.
Are... you.... serious....?

RM makes baby Koop cry

Ya whats wrong with getting good quality sound and video in under 20 MB!!!

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:33 pm

doomer000 wrote:
greenjinjo wrote:
doomer000 wrote:I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.
Are... you.... serious....?

RM makes baby Koop cry
Ya whats wrong with getting good quality sound and video in under 20 MB!!!

Nothing. Except that WMV and RM are positively evil formats to handle, and few people want to handle them. Basically, it's taking something nice and coating it in... excrement.

doomer000 · Post by **doomer000** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:38 pm

How so????
I have always liked them both especially RM because it streams video and audio separate.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:49 pm

doomer000 wrote:How so????
I have always liked them both especially RM because it streams video and audio separate.

Many of us don't like the invasive players. Or maybe we don't use Windows. Or maybe we recognize that a flexible format is inherently superior to an inflexible one.

RamonesFan2020204 · Post by **RamonesFan2020204** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:09 pm

doomer000 wrote:I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.

You and me both, brotha!

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:43 pm

RamonesFan2020204 wrote:
doomer000 wrote:I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.
You and me both, brotha!

And everybody else loathes these formats. You may want to consider the reasons for this.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:53 pm

Kalium wrote:
RamonesFan2020204 wrote:
doomer000 wrote:I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.
You and me both, brotha!
And everybody else loathes these formats. You may want to consider the reasons for this.

Dude, he doesn't "understand" (note: refuses to listen to) those reasons.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Mon May 01, 2006 11:43 pm

drunkenbatman wrote:MPEG-4 was a bit of a shuffle in the market; previously the way it worked was that if you picked Quicktime you'd use Sorenson, if you picked WMP, you'd use their codecs, if you picked Real Player your customers would leave you.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Mon May 01, 2006 11:44 pm

At first I used MPEG-1, because I was already firmly entrenched in authoring Video CDs at that point. In October 2003, I switched to DivX and MP3; in February of 2004, I started using XviD instead, and did consistently until the middle of 2005. All those XviD encodes were obviously in AVI except for one [still currently unreleased] trailer in Matroska because it has dual video streams (it needs to be remastered).

After that, I released a couple of videos that used XviD and then switched to AVC and AAC in Matroska (by summer, although I initially used the VFW - the only videos released during that time were two MEP tracks; I didn't start using MeGUI until the fourth quarter, I think). I'd been using x264 for DVD backups since the first quarter of 2005, though. My reasons for using MKV over MP4 are related to the fact that most MP4s I use are audio-only, and are thus associated with Winamp 2, and while I do have the MPlayer Winamp plugin for video, I almost never use it - I prefer using WMP6.4 or on rare occasion/for WMVs or Sorenson-encoded MOVs, MPC (unless I'm under Linux at the time, in which case I do use MPlayer, although my hardware's not powerful enough for it to decode AVC adequately, not to mention that I think the build is from July 2005). I still use XviD in some capacities, like preview renders or alternative encodes hosted offsite while the main release is H.264.

For MPEG-1, I use TMPGEnc (as well as for MPEG-2).

For XviD, Koepi's 1.1.0 build with VDubMod 1.5.10.2 (and it's latest bugfix), and MP3 with LAME 3.96 using the last version of dBPowerAMP Music Converter that allowed unrestricted MP3 encoding - I really need to update LAME, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

For backups, I use Lagarith and FLAC in Matroska.

For H.264, I use the newest or next-to-newest build of x264 from Sharktooth on Doom9, likewise with the build of MeGUI that comes with said package.

For AAC, I use Quicktime 7.0.2, although I've played around with the Nero encoder for +v1 and v2 encodes.