look at the damn filesize in comparison to the image quality and fps used... there goes your xvid argument. A half decent codec pack or something like vlc handles x264 quite nicely.
i need to dl extra codec and im not gonna coz i dont see why i shud
if u released an xvid on its own any1 who will dl the x264 now wud of d/ld the xvid; then double that number and then sum and thats ur total dls
i thought the reason ppl release movies publically was for ppl to see them, wuda thought theyd want to reach as many as poss
all major movie makers make both versions
its not vastly superior if u cant fkn play it listen to me
on my other pc i had ffdshow, vlc and the pc was an a64 3200+ and i cudnt play them
so like i sed if ppl want as many ppl as possible to view there movies they need xvid in adition wit x264 or just xvid
x264 is light years ahead of xvid and yes i've played HD x264 files fine on specs much lower than what you posted (2600+ athlon xp with 512mb ram). i've said this before but most of the time playback issues with x264 are only because of codec conflicts which often arise from the usage of codec packs. x264 sys requirements are indeed higher than xvid but not as high as some people make it out to be.
x264 gives much better quality than xvid at the same filesizes. i actually compared an x264 encode and an xvid encode of the same content weighing in at the exact same filesize. x264 did a much better job at retaining detail and sharpness. here are 2 screenies from that test.
A friendly piece of advice: next time use PNG, it's a proper internets format and lossless, and a quick test shows it only takes like ~260 KB instead of 1,2 MB! :-------)
Edited by Pushpabon at 13:29 GMT, 10 December 2006
+ Star Wars, Heroes, Sonic/Mario was ok.
+ Picture quality was great.
+ Music worked well
- Too much cutting and changing angles/viewpoints every half a second + slow-mo
- Low fov in some sections (No doubt it's 90 and It's just totally alien to me now)
- Frags weren't anything special (There were some nice ones though)
- Gun models/Effects
the mario/sonic part made me laugh :) really creative and different movie, as the others the only thing I didn't like were the gun models aswell. amazing work o/
wth... is that a transformer in the screenshot?