[vlc] Re: Quicktime h264

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> I've had good experiences with x264 playing back QT encoded files. AFAIK
> x264 is more feature rich then Apple's implementation and at least on my
> Powerbook it's much faster.

Just to clear this up, as far as I know x264 is only an ENCODER not a
decoder, so u are not playgin anything with x264.

Cheers
Jonas Larsen


> Am 18.08.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Anderson Onir:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can vlc play the stream encoded with Quicktime h264 from Apple?
> 
> Yes, it can, but don't expect the performance of Apple's QuickTime-
> codec. It is highly optimised, while H.264 support is still
> experimental in VLC (using the FFMPEG library). This means
> practically, that some parts of the H.264-specification are not
> supported yet and that you need a faster PC to get the same experience.
> 
> Regards,
> Felix
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