m1el

Bad for ya~

Same goes for mp4 and h.264. Clear install of Windows will play mp4/h.264. Sure. Same goes for mpeg-2 on *reasonable for today* bitrate. But you can make a h.264 video with *better* quality and *lower* bitrate. Look at this: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/85489 XviD video have twice bitrate as h.264 have. But XviD looks worse, that's why I say to use h.264/x264, not XviD. XviD looks worse on lower bitrates, it looks worse on higher bitrates. Why would you use it? Just because you used to watch AVIs with XviD inside? Also XviD is not supported by some hardware players (while DivX is supported).

On the other note, I don't see any stuttering in any video in encoding tests on 2 OSes (Windows/Linux) and 3 different players (mplayer/MPC-hc/WMP). (But motion blur makes me dizzy) Most CPU-eating video was WMV/WMV9 one (~19% CPU) easiest to decode is AVI/XviD (~9% CPU). Well, that was expected. XviD video have visible artifacts, despite it is bigger than x264 encoded video.

In 2011, for h.264, this is completely wrong. Wrong. the most supported container is mp4 because there is an ISO standard for it. And almost any hardware player capable to play h.264, supports this format. If you are talking about your software player not capable to play mp4, you can throw it away, it's outdated for about ~10 years. Wrong. (container)MP4 does not do any video/audio compression. Codecs do that. MP4 is a freaking container, it only contains an encoded video/audio stream.I can put (almost) any video/audio codec to (almost) any container. The video quality won't change. The size won't noticeably change. It's a container, not a codec, it should not affect quality or compression. My opinion on containers: As for the video codec IMO, there is no discussion or question, currently, h.264+x264 encoder > all. Why did I wrote this? Because I rage when people say "I 8T MKV BECUZ IT IS SLOWER THAN AVI. MKV SUCKS", "AVI FTW!!11", "XVID > X264!!1", etc., etc... And I don't want these people to affect the quality (at least video quality) of show I watch and enjoy a lot. If I am wrong somewhere, tell me.