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Best codec for video conversion?

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Gauravs90
Gauravs90 Original post #1
Oct 4, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Pls tell me best codec for video conversion you know which have high compression ratio?

Like h264 have high compression ratio.

Which is the best codec for video conversion.
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prashanthgowda #2
Oct 6, 2009 at 10:45 PM
If you want to play the videos on the pc ,use xvid.If you to play them on a home theater,use divx(xvid is not supported by many systems).For movies a bitrate of 900-1000 kbits/sec is enough for good quality at high compression.

Also,if you have good processing power and a lot of time go for 2-pass encoding.
[A]bu
[A]bu #3
Oct 7, 2009 at 7:46 AM
MPEG4 is also not so bad.