Last night I tried tweaking the 3ivx advanced options in QT Pro to see if I could produce a 3ivx file that came somewhere close to the quality and compression I get with this new H.264 thingy.
I don't really know what I'm doing, but setting options like dual pass encoding etc. seemed like it might have some effect. Each time I tried to encode my AVI file using these settings, QuickTime Pro crashed with an "unexpected error" about halfway through the encode! I'm on a Windows XP machine. Fun and games! Looks like some more tweaking is called for. We haven't gone live with an H.264 files yet. If 3ivx can be made to measure up I'll probably stick with it instead. Waz www.crashtestkitchen.com --- In [email protected], "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheers, and cheers to the other people who volunteered too, great > response :) I think thats at least 3 people who have volunteered, all > with multiple macs to try. To be honest, thats probably far more > machines than we actually need to get a good idea, and also I havent > looked yet at what OS you need to run quicktime 7. This may be a > rather large stmbling block for some machines I guess. > > Anyway I need to sleep now, and Ive gotta work tomorrow so more test > clips from me are not about to materialise in the next few hours or > anything. > > To be honest my test clips wont be anything special, anybody with > quicktime pro 7.0.3 can do it. May as well use the ipod export mode to > create the h264 for these tests, as it uses about the same settings as > a 320x240 h264 videoblog is likely too, maybe very slightly higher > bitrate than average but still a pretty fair test, and possibly the > popular choice in future, time will tell. > > Hmm it occurs to me that the baseline type of h264 that the ipod > supports is likely to use less CPU power to decode than the main > profile h264 that people have probably (unconciously) used previously. > So Im hoping that ipod h264 works on slower machines than h264 people > might have tried in the past. I will test this theory by providing a > main and baseline version of the same clip, unles anybody wants to > beat me to it. > > Cheers > > Steve of Elbows > --- In [email protected], "Jack Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Steve, I'd be glad to test it for you. I have a 5 different G4 Macs > and three different G3 > > Macs (I doubt that they will play h.264 well) > > > > Jack > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
