[vlc] Re: DIVx better than 3?

[Ricardo Kleemann]

Thanks.

But as for purposes of viewing video encoded with codecs supported by WMP,
which is the best one that VLC provides? I tried, for example, encoding with
mp4v and h264 but WMP doesn't support that.

IOW if the requirement is to encode for viewing with WMP, what's the best
codec (with highest compression) I should use?

Ricardo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin PRACHT" <bigben+spam at videolan.org>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: [vlc] Re: DIVx better than 3?


> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005, Ricardo Kleemann wrote :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is the DIV3 codec in VLC supposed to be the same as DIVx codec? I see
that
> > DIVx is up to version 5, is that something altogether different?
> >
> > Does VLC support (or plan to support) a video codec better than DIV3
that is
> > supported by windows media player?
> >
>
> VLC uses ffmpeg's implementation of DIV3. I've got no idea if it is
> considered as better as Microsoft's one (DIV3 was a hack of one of
Microsoft's
> early (incompliant) MPEG4 encoders, if I remember correctly. DivX 4 and
> DivX 5 are implementations of ISO MPEG4. VLC can use either ffmpeg's own
> MPEG 4 implementation, or XviD's one. Both are considered as slithely
> better as DIV3, I think. VLC can encode and read video using several
> other codecs (MPEG1, MPEG2, h263, h264, WMV 1 and 2, WMV 3 on windows,
> MJPEG, Theora, etc...)
>
> -- 
> Benjamin Pracht
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