What settings do you use for high quality video for the internet? at DVinfo.net

William Barber · January 25th, 2006, 12:19 PM

I've been doing .wmv for a bit now and see alot of people are using h.264 at decent resolutions and it looks pretty good. What do you prefer?

Emre Safak · January 25th, 2006, 01:24 PM

I think H.264 is the king of the hill, at the moment.

Dan Euritt · January 27th, 2006, 12:47 AM

h.264 looks great, but you'll want to see if the encoder has vbr capability... it can make a big difference in file size, if you are creating downloadable vids... audio could also be an issue, i seriously doubt that you'll be able to beat wmv 9.1 2-pass audio quality with the aac audio that comes with h.264... there are also issues with people not having the media player to correctly handle h.264.

you can download some comparison clips from the website in my sig.

January 25th, 2006, 12:19 PM	#1
William Barber Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 32	What settings do you use for high quality video for the internet? I've been doing .wmv for a bit now and see alot of people are using h.264 at decent resolutions and it looks pretty good. What do you prefer?

January 25th, 2006, 01:24 PM	#2
Emre Safak Trustee Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brookline, MA Posts: 1,447	I think H.264 is the king of the hill, at the moment.

January 27th, 2006, 12:47 AM	#3
Dan Euritt Trustee Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Carlsbad CA Posts: 1,132	h.264 looks great, but you'll want to see if the encoder has vbr capability... it can make a big difference in file size, if you are creating downloadable vids... audio could also be an issue, i seriously doubt that you'll be able to beat wmv 9.1 2-pass audio quality with the aac audio that comes with h.264... there are also issues with people not having the media player to correctly handle h.264. you can download some comparison clips from the website in my sig.