H.264 Mpeg-4
"Company officials claim that H.264 has, on average, 2.25 to 2.5 times better compression efficiency than MPEG-2 at the same frame rate, frame size and quality level"
H.264 is a newer Mpeg4 compression. It's built into Quicktime 7 and other applications. It is also being built into new hardware such as hard disk based video cameras.
DVD uses a form of Mpeg2, an older compression form.
Examples of H.264 can be found on movies bought through the iTunes music store (but that's on the low end of quality) or these movie trailers. If your computer is fast enough to decode them (H.264 is very system intensive). The H.264 Mpeg-4 compression is scalable all the way from cell phone displays up to high definition television.
Yes I now have a folder on my computer under the one labeled Mp3. This new folder is labeled Mp4 and contains only videos.
What we need now is get some H.264 hardware codecs built into video cards / CPU's for faster encoding/decoding.
H.264 is a newer Mpeg4 compression. It's built into Quicktime 7 and other applications. It is also being built into new hardware such as hard disk based video cameras.
DVD uses a form of Mpeg2, an older compression form.
Examples of H.264 can be found on movies bought through the iTunes music store (but that's on the low end of quality) or these movie trailers. If your computer is fast enough to decode them (H.264 is very system intensive). The H.264 Mpeg-4 compression is scalable all the way from cell phone displays up to high definition television.
Yes I now have a folder on my computer under the one labeled Mp3. This new folder is labeled Mp4 and contains only videos.
What we need now is get some H.264 hardware codecs built into video cards / CPU's for faster encoding/decoding.