[MEncoder-users] divx v's x264

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:22:27PM -0300, Diogo Franco wrote:
> Em Sex, 2008-06-06 às 05:34 +1000, Alex Samad escreveu:
> > My understanding is that cabac is an option that makes the resulting
> > file is more cpu intensive to decode, I have run into problems whilst
> > playing it on my xbox with XBMC
> It doesn't 'just' make the file 'more cpu intensive to decode', but has
> a much better compression efficiency. Unless you really want that cpu

that is what i have read int he man pages, more cpu intensive in
encoding and decoding, from my experience, it has caused me problems
with viewing on my xbox, it has caused me problems with viewing on my
xbox 
 have also turned of b_frames because of this. But having checked the
website again, it looks like setting bframes=1 (when i was reading about
qt compatibility)
 

> time, cabac will allow your file to be smaller than with cavlc.

See I find this last statement counter intuitive. It has been mentioned
on this thread that once you set the bitrate the file size should be the
same no matter what codec is used.

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