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    Some Feedback Wanted

    in General News

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    H.264 in lossless mode? Have you got any clue what you're talking about? Just to give you an idea: the resulting files would be so big that you could fit 30 minutes of video into one Blu-ray and the resulting bitrate so high that no computer would be able to play it in real time. H.264 lossless is for archiving, not for distribution. Sure, I'm a perfectionist, but there are limits to insanity.

     

    Also, MPEG-4 ALS/SLS do not have any encoder or decoder available aside from reference implementations. It seems you just did one or two Google searches and then came here just to throw acronyms around. If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't pretend like you do.

    No need to blatantly be insulting. Does it really matter? I stated what the best was, not what I would like. I personally would be thrilled if he did MKV with x264 (moderately high quality) and FLAC. (compression setting 5 or greater)

     

    For other devices, MP4 with Xvid and AAC or AC3 audio.

     

    AFAIK, H.264 is more supported on Apple devices than XviD.

    Xvid is available in all qualities that I've tried on the iPod that it was tested on, as well as several other non-Appshit products.

     

    Are these devices capable of decoding H.264? Yes, absolutely. So my argument stands: they are indeed capable of playing H.264.

     

    The thing is, they don't necessarily have to decode all of H.264. That's why profiles were invented: there's the Baseline profile, the Main profile and the High profile. For maximum compatibility with devices, the Main profile should be used. Well, you could even be compatible with low-end feature phones (yes, even they support H.264 - it's in the 3GPP spec) by using the Baseline profile but then the quality would be horrendous. The reason why you were having trouble with your iPod is that you were enabling High profile features, which aren't always supported on hardware devices.

     

    EDIT: well, it seems that iPods and older iPhones only support Baseline. What a shame. I would still expect Baseline to be better than XviD, though. The iPhone 4 and iPad support main profile. Considering that small devices like iPod and iPhones have quite a low bitrate limit, you'll never get any high quality video to play on them anyway, be it XviD or H.264.

     

    Again, an "encoding guru" who knows what he's doing won't make this kind of mistakes, and will restrict x264 to the Main profile which is the most supported by non-computer devices.

     

    Also, stop confusing x264 (which is an encoder) with the format of the files it outputs, which is a subset of the H.264 specification. There is no such as a "x264 codec supporting device", just devices which support specific features of H.264, regrouped under so-called "profiles".

     

    So, I'm gonna reiterate: H.264 is the most supported format, and Main is its most supported profile. You'll notice that this doesn't contradict my previous statements.

    Hmmm... Went from being as insulting as possible while being completely wrong, to being as insulting as possible while being only partially wrong. :roll:

     

    MOST devices can't do ANY 264 decoding. Look it up. Not everyone uses iShit.

    Stealing is Worng!

    in Freeman's Mind

    Posted

    About copyright infringement, me and my 40 GBs of pirated music don't really care very much.

    Pirated music: 56.2 GB

    Pirated videos: 443 GB

    Pirated games: 213 GB

    Pirating all of this without getting caught, even without any precautions: Priceless.

    Forum Post Adventure

    in Forum Games

    Posted

    You try to talk to the president, but then he disappears, including the white house as it was all a hologram.

    This is the problem with these games, they get messed up by people who've never played a text-based adventure.

     

     

    You find yourself in the forest still, but it looks almost identical from where you came from, like before exits are North, East, South, and West.

    Jump up and down while yelling.

    General Chat

    in Free-For-All

    Posted

    I think when I hit 666 post I'll give away a free Steam game (nothing too fancy, 5 USD or so)... :mrgreen:

     

    Good idea, I'll do that on mah 1337th post ;)

    And I'll do it on my -999th rep point...

    Possible EU enlargement?????

    in Serious Topic Discussion

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    When you occupy a country (and remember this whole debate started with this statement "Mark my words, the EU is eventually going to try and take over the world.", I'm talking about that), you'll inevitably face insurrection and guerrilla warfare. Keeping your hold will be costly: morally, economically and in terms of manpower. The EU doesn't really have a lot of any of those things, not enough to try and take over the world anyway. So I don't think military expansion on their part is likely.

    I never said anything about war or military... I just said they'll try and take over the world. That can be done through propaganda and treaties...

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