AW: Quicktime and Encoder

Ian Wood revlist at azurevision.co.uk
Tue Nov 20 05:26:46 EST 2007


On 20 Nov 2007, at 08:55, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> having read a little bit more, H.264 seems to be a HD codec, if I  
> am right.
> Do you know, or do you have a feeling, if I can - or if it makes  
> sense, to
> use the H.264 codec to produce not HD material, captured with old PAL
> standard 720x576 to an output format 384x288 just to get best video  
> quality?

h264 is *used* for a lot of HD content, but it's not limited to it.  
YouTube are in the middle of re-encoding all their content using it.

> Or would Sorenson 3 VBR the choice in this case?
>
> The QT help site tells, that Sorenson 3 is supported. Is Sorenson 3  
> VBR
> another (not supported) codec or just some encoding parameters of  
> Sorenson 3
> which would also be supported by standard QT?

I don't think VBR Sor3 is supported as an encoding option without  
buying the 'full' codec from Sorenson.

Ian




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