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| DubbedOut |
| Posted: Nov 8 2002, 12:32 AM |
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OK what's up guys. I have a ton of codecs available on my system (I really don't know where most of them came from)  .. What I am hoping to do is find the best 4-5 codecs of the lot, and then test them out. I've been having some audio sync problems capturing segmented files to Divx.. And I think Divx is the reason. Here's what I do:
Capture to segmented AVI 352x480
Framserve to TMPGEnc
Output as Mpg2 1/2 DVD (352x480)
Author & Burn 2 movies per DVD
Given those settings, plz rate the codecs in your experience from BEST to worst in terms of file size & quality. File size means for a 2 hour movie, the total size doesn't go beyond 30GB. Quality means non-blocky and it would look really good encoded to Mpeg-2.
Codecs List:
(none) Full Frames Uncompressed
WMF Windows Media Format
DV Video Encoder
Indeo Video 5.04
Intervideo MPEG Video Encoder
Indeo Video 5.06
Ligos GoMotion DV to MPEG
Arcsoft MPEG-2 Writer
Picvideo Mjpeg Compressor
Picvideo Lossless Jpeg Compressor
VDOnet VDOWave
Cinepak Codec by Radius
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft RLE
Huffyuv v2.1.1
Divx 5.0.2 Codec
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3
VFAPI Reader Codec 1.03
DVSoft
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| Neo Neko |
| Posted: Nov 8 2002, 02:41 AM |
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| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | OK what's up guys. I have a ton of codecs available on my system (I really don't know where most of them came from) .. What I am hoping to do is find the best 4-5 codecs of the lot, and then test them out. I've been having some audio sync problems capturing segmented files to Divx.. And I think Divx is the reason. Here's what I do: |
Divx or any highly compressed format is a bad choice for capture.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | WMF Windows Media Format |
Snowball's chance in hell durring a heatwave for that to work well.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | DV Video Encoder |
Reasonable/quality size. Speed varies. But it is hard to edit.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | Indeo Video 5.04 |
Very lossy codec. Bad for capture.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | Indeo Video 5.06 |
Ditto.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | Picvideo Mjpeg Compressor |
It is excelent. I use it and morgan MJPEG as well. They are both fast, offer decent compression, and good quality. I generally get about 2:30 in 20Gb of space.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | Picvideo Lossless Jpeg Compressor |
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Good quality. But not suited for capture.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) |
Cinepak Codec by Radius
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft RLE
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Stop it!  Now you are making me nostalgic for Windows 3.11. They are very old and bad quality not to mention somewhat slow in some cases.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | Huffyuv v2.1.1 |
The best. But be prepared to pay in HD space. Though 1/2 to 1/4 the space needed for uncompressed.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | Divx 5.0.2 Codec |
To lossy and CPU intensive.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) |
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3
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They can't pass muster for simple encoding. Capture is out of the question.
| QUOTE (DubbedOut @ Nov 7 2002, 06:32 PM) | | VFAPI Reader Codec 1.03 |
Not actually a codec. But slow and outdated still.
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Nov 8 2002, 04:11 AM |
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My vote for the top five codecs that everyone should have:
1) DivX 5.0.2 (the best)
2) PicVideo MJPEG (the fastest)
3) Huffyuv (lossless)
4) On2 VP3 (good, but slow)
5) Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 (when all else fails)
I ordered my list based on how often I use the codec. Also, I should say that I haven't tried many of the other codecs out there (XviD, DV, etc.) so I'm not qualified to rate them.
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| DubbedOut |
| Posted: Nov 8 2002, 02:21 PM |
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Great, thanks for the help so far. And to add one more question, are there any really good codecs to capture with that are not on the list? |
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| BaronVlad |
| Posted: Nov 15 2002, 06:45 PM |
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Leadtech and Morgan MJPEG are not in the list, but they are very good, if you have a VERY FAST system but not enough diskspace for using Huffyuv.
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