Cool, makes sense. Just remembered another reason people offered mpeg4 instead of h264 - you need quicktime 7 for h264, and back in the day there were some people who didnt want to move from qt6.
Mpeg4 should be quicker to encode than h264 as well, again depending on what settings are used, although that elgato h264 encoder hardware I tested was so fast that this wipes out that issue for me. I know some of freevlog's encoding tutorials used 3ivx originally, is this still the case or did they move on to h264? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We use 3ivx on Rocketboom for our main .mov Quicktime distribution > file. I've used this for about 2 years and I'm glad to see that the > update is finally here (when Apple came out with the Intel > processors, creating 3ivx was not possible (though playing was) and > so we have remained on an older Apple machine for this reason. Its a > killer ap for making quicktime videos, I think. > > Its simply a generic mpeg4 compression software that makes our QT > files look REALLY nice for literally about half of the file size. > > The nice thing about it is that your audience does not need 3ivx to > view the videos, they only need mpeg4 which may be one of the most > common cross-platform codecs besides flash. > > Here is the documentation of the settings we use (per v4.5) > http://rocketboom.wikia.com/wiki/Compression > > Drew > > > > On Jun 10, 2007, at 2:03 AM, Harold wrote: > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Hood" <anunnaki@> > > wrote: > > > > > > It's comparable to MP4 flavors Xvid and Dvix, no? > > > > I don't entirely know, Brad. The name certainly makes you think of > > DivX and Xvid, but whether there's any similarity in the technology, > > I've no idea. > > > > Harold > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
