[vlc] Re: Quicktime h264

[Måns Rullgård]

Derk-Jan Hartman <pjotr at sidekick.student.utwente.nl> writes:

> On 18 aug 2005, at 22:52, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> "Brian Raymond" <braymond at echostorm.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> x264 only encodes.  You've probably been using ffmpeg/libavcodec,
>> which can indeed decode most things files, but it's still missing
>> several features, which are not used very often.
>
> No he is not. He said that it's faster then QT, and that is
> impossible since h265 in libavcodec is not altivec optimized etc.

Wrong, libavcodec does have altivec optimizations for h264.

> libavcodec is about twice as slow on OSX then QTP.

So what is he using then?

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Måns Rullgård
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