2004 Codec shoot-out
p2pnet.net News:- What’s good in the world of codec?
MunchMunch writes on /. – "Popular encoding/guide/news site doom9.org has just put up its codec shoot-out for 2004, comparing 3ivx 5.0, Divx Fusion 5.9 (prerelease 6.0), Nero Digital Main Profile and High Profile, RealVideo 10, On2 VP6, VideoSoft’s VSS, Xvid 1.0, MS’s WMV9 and, last, newcomer Jomingo’s HDX4. The comparison covers the speed, accuracy, target-file-size-adherence and other aspects of the codecs – but also lets you compare yourself via high- and low-bandwidth framegrabs of each codec with a nice zoomable image-swap script."
By way of a taster, “I was once again not impressed with the progress DivX has made," says the report.
"It’s nice to have additional features available, but quality wise I just don’t see one year of development. Plus, if you spend as much time using settings that are called insane by the codec, I’d expect to see something. Though, this time there were no problems with Futurama, something which was a problem in the last test.”
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See:-
MunchMunch – Comparing Codecs for 2004, slashdot, January 2, 2005
report – Codec shoot-out 2004, Doom9.org, December 31, 2004
