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Anyone here switching to H.264?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I use FFmpegX to encode DVD movies I backup, into DiVX files of about 700 MBs in size.
Recently FFmpegX has added H.264 to its list of codecs.
I used to use mencoder mpeg-4 with all the advanced options turned on.
Is anyone here planning on using H.264 from now on in FFmpegX? It's too bad it can only be encoded in an .avi container with mp3 audio, but VLC can play it fine.
Can Quicktime 7 Pro now encode backed up .vob files?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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I'm guessing that Quicktime 7 still doesn't encode audio from VOB/MPEG files (I haven't tried it myself though) or include a deinterlacer for VOB files (plus that you still need the MPEG-2 component)...
DiVA should be able to encode h.264 into mov files, and it includes a pretty good deinterlacer. The next version should include audio encoding too.
I'm still on 10.2.8, meaning I can't try either the new version of ffmpegX or Quicktime (was thinking I'd just skip 10.3 and go directly to Tiger) so I can't say. Depends on what the quality savings are and how long encoding takes.
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How was it like to stay on Jaguar that whole time? I got Panther two days after it came out. I'm thinking of sticking with it for a while because I'm not so sure about all the bug reports I'm hearing about Tiger.
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Not bad, though it did sting a bit every time a new version of an app I used stated 10.3 as requirements. And having to search for 10.2-versions of applications was a bit of a drag (like Bittorrent, ffmpegX, Stuffit Expander etc.).
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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H.264 takes much longer to encode. I hope you have a fast computer. 
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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I'll be using it for everything I do which isn't much. I really don't encode DVDs but I work in TV and we've been looking at alternate ways of sending our video back to the stations over the internet. h.264 will make this very possible over DSL. I'm patiently waiting for QT 7 for the PC to be released since at work we're almost entirely PC based.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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it depends... how mainstream is it?
I probably wont be using it until it becomes mainstream in the film/3d anim world...
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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Like others, for me it's kind of like the switch to HD. Apple can bring out all the content creation tools it wants, but until there are lots of players in the hands of users (I'm looking at you QT 7 for PC) then it's pretty useless unless you're in a closed loop kind of system.
I'm holding on to some shadow of hope that perhaps MS will allow H.264 .mp4 files in WMP, but I'm not holding my breath.
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