ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs

prostoalex writes "ExtremeTech tested Windows Media, DivX, QuickTime/Sorenson and QuickTime/MPEG4 codecs. They encoded clips from Matrix Reloaded, Monsters, Inc., X2 and Spider-Man. QuickTime/Sorenson won the encoding speed contest, for the quality tests read the entire review, as each movie sample was encoded with 500KB and 1MB bitrates. Video samples provided on the site as well, so see for yourself."

I smell...

[xSquaredAdmin]

a/.ing "video samples provided on the site as well, so see for yourself."

These encoding algorithms...

[Raindance]

... pale in comparison to ASCII-mation.

Episode four in under a meg!

Hahahahaha

[Erwos]

"Video samples provided on the site as well, so see for yourself."

Yeah, as if there was any chance of THAT happening after you submitted that site to /. Good one!

-Erwos

Bah.......

[Kenja]

Bah, they should have used the nipple scene from Spider Man. The rest of the movie was a total wash.

Damn Codecs!

[Anonymous Coward]

How do they expect me to keep pirating Hollywood movies if they keep changing the damn codec?!

Come on!

[Udo Schmitz]

for the quality tests read the entire review,

Come on! Are we now suddenly supposed to actually read those frickin' articles? Just tell me who won. This is the internet and my attention span ... wait, what's that shiny thing? ...

Re:Bah.......

[justMichael]

I think they were referring to the upside down kiss scene, where she is in a white shirt and it just happens to be raining...

Close enough to nipple for /.

Re:Not the best evidence.

[Dogtanian]

True, especially when they used lossy JPEG images! Unbelievable, why not PNG or TIFF?

Because 5 minutes after being reported on Slashdot, they'd all have been replaced with "This site has exceeded its download limit for the next 5 years. Please come back in 2009."

Re:M$ does something right

[sik0fewl]

I was upset when I herad that HD-DVD will be in M$ WMV format I was upset.

Wow.. that is upset.

Re:No XVid?

[Trogre]

Hey, I just noticed, that's like diVX spelled backwards!

Now that's clever.

Or does it stand for something like:
X Vid Isn't Divx

Re:Stupid test

[Trogre]

And the samples are all live action..

What, you mean Mike Wasowski is real? I knew it!

Clear Winner

[potmos]

I didn't read the article, but after looking at the chart, it is clear that Monsters, Inc. clearly beat out those other movies. It's over 4x faster than Spiderman.

They should have use the scene every /.er knows...

[SensitiveMale]

in spiderman.

Kirsten Dunst's wet t-shirt scene.

What the?

[(eternal_software)]

From the QuickTime summary:

Pros: decent image quality
Cons: Horrible image quality

Re:Doom9's Comparison

[kamukwam]

Did you know that Xvid is the reverse of Divx? Amazing!!!