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  • Craig Seeman

    August 16, 2013 at 12:14 am

    [Marc D'Agostino] “h264 is actually MPEG4 compression, so it’s likely you can use it.”

    MPEG4 involves many encoder specs. MPEG4 part 2 will look very bad compared to MPEG4 part 10 (H.264).
    At matching bit rates the quality likely won’t even be close.

  • Marc D’agostino

    August 16, 2013 at 12:21 am

    Sure, but for thomas’s purposes, h264 is in the MPEG family – so he can use it for a site that specifies it wants some form of MPEG compression. He’ll probably have to use the MP4 extension/wrapper. Is that correct? I’m not sure what are you adding here?

  • Thomas Adjani

    August 16, 2013 at 12:24 am

    Thank you so much, Marc for the detailed reply. I had watched a few youtube vids, but turns out the info was not helpful. I think my not knowing about the possibility of using h264 to get to mpeg was the issue!

  • Thomas Adjani

    August 16, 2013 at 2:33 am

    Yeah, it looks horrible at 2400 streaming : ( and at a small frame no less

  • Craig Seeman

    August 16, 2013 at 2:36 am

    The older MPEG is horrible quality compared to H.264. It’s been retired from common use years ago. There’s really no reason to use it.

  • Thomas Adjani

    August 16, 2013 at 2:41 am

    I used h264. Streaming. Restrict to 2400 kbits/sec.

    best quality. File Format: Quicktime movie. Changed the extension to mp4.

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