Thread: Best Movie Format / Codec
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2010-01-19 , 05:37
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#12
Originally Posted by jakiman View Post
I've tested up to 800x434 @ 5500kbps (yes, 5.5Mbps) for xvid in an avi container and it played smooth. Tried 6000kbps and it became choppy. This is using mplayer btw.
xvid is a lot easier on the system than h264 but your trading off that ease of processing for a older inferior codec.

That 5500kb/s is probably only equal to 1200kb/s H264 and your file size is going to be larger. When your looking at less than 64gb of space to use I think the space really matters and once you encode it just one time you have it for life so I think the extra 20 minutes or so to encode is worth it as its an investment.

You can just start the encoding and go do something else, no need to sit and watch it.