Anssi Hannula wrote: > Gr?goire Favre wrote: > >> $MENCODER -aid 1 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi -oac mp3lame >> -lameopts cbr:br=$q $1 > > ^^^ > >> >> Bouah... no : aac for audio... and x264 for video :-) > > > Never used them. > What's aac anyway, your script appears to use mp3? > > What's the quality (with the same bitrate, of course) of x264 when > compared to xvid/mpeg4? > Some info about H264 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 on Hardware - HD-DVD/Blu-ray Two organisations (the DVD Forum and the Blu-ray Disc Association) are currently working on the successor of the popular DVD format, which will support so called High Definition content (larger picture sizes than current DVD): HD-DVD and BD-ROM As reported here the DVD Forum already made the decision that MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 will be used as mandatory video codec for HD-DVD Also the Blu-ray Disc Association has announced the inclusion of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 as can be read here It is therefore very likely that AVC/H.264 will be THE upcoming video format, which will be widely used and supported, like it is the case with MPEG-2 (used in DVD) today http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=461589&postcount=5 http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73022#post461589 -josk ps. I downloaded couple H264 samples and quality was amazing!