Media Encoder CS6 – H264 Preset

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You’re looking at the FourCC code. Different implementations from different companies can be assigned different FourCC codes.

MP42 is the code assigned to the MPEG-4 codec that, at some point, originated from a Microsoft Media developer toolkit. It’s quite possible Adobe is using an implementation based on Microsoft’s code for its non-Quicktime based encoding.

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[Abraham Thomas]

Thank you very much for your reply. I did not know about this, it was very helpful.

[Todd Kopriva]

H.264 is equivalent to MPEG-4 (part 10). People often use the terms interchangeably.

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