h264 codec for VirtualDubMod?

After discovering that the codec for Divx does not allow
videos larger than about one megapixel per frame,
and that Xvid does not work at all but rather fails
an error about a "statsfile", I am now curious as to whether
there might be an h264 codec available that I can use
with VirtualDubMod. Does anyone know?

Thanks.

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After discovering that the codec for Divx does not allow
videos larger than about one megapixel per frame,
and that Xvid does not work at all but rather fails
an error about a "statsfile", I am now curious as to whether
there might be an h264 codec available that I can use
with VirtualDubMod. Does anyone know?

Thanks.


Have you tried the free "x264" codec?

Luck;
Ken

Ken Maltby wrote:

Have you tried the free "x264" codec?

Yes, and it did encode 1440x1080, but playback using mplayer was very
slow.
What should have been 24 fps turned out to be one frame every four
seconds.

the dog from that film you saw wrote:

that's because your pc isnt fast enough.
there's no easy way around that - get a faster pc or settle for a lower
resolution.

It's a 3 GHz Pentium IV. What do I need, a Cray supercomputer?

"Pnox" skrev i melding
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After discovering that the codec for Divx does not allow
videos larger than about one megapixel per frame,
and that Xvid does not work at all but rather fails
an error about a "statsfile", I am now curious as to whether
there might be an h264 codec available that I can use
with VirtualDubMod. Does anyone know?

Thanks.


Use notepad to create an empty video.pass at root level on each station,
example: c:\video.pass. Xvid uses this in multiple pass encoding.

"Pnox" wrote in message
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the dog from that film you saw wrote:

that's because your pc isnt fast enough.
there's no easy way around that - get a faster pc or settle for a lower
resolution.

It's a 3 GHz Pentium IV. What do I need, a Cray supercomputer?


You might want to get the CoreAVC codec, it is the fastest
software decoder available ( I think it was like $20 for the Pro
version download) There CoreAAC codec is still available free.

Luck;
Ken

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"Pnox" wrote in message
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the dog from that film you saw wrote:

that's because your pc isnt fast enough.
there's no easy way around that - get a faster pc or settle for a lower
resolution.

It's a 3 GHz Pentium IV. What do I need, a Cray supercomputer?


You might want to get the CoreAVC codec, it is the fastest
software decoder available ( I think it was like $20 for the Pro
version download) There CoreAAC codec is still available free.

Luck;
Ken


P.S. Oh yeah, try VLC for playback it usually handles "x264" very
well.

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Ken Maltby wrote:

Have you tried the free "x264" codec?

Yes, and it did encode 1440x1080, but playback using mplayer was very
slow.
What should have been 24 fps turned out to be one frame every four
seconds.



that's because your pc isnt fast enough.
there's no easy way around that - get a faster pc or settle for a lower
resolution.



Another possible cure is hardware acceleration, ATI has
H264 acceleration in their X1000 series vid cards, they
call it "Avivo"
http://www.ati.com/technology/avivo/h264.html

Nvidia has "Pure(something)"

Luck;
Ken

"Pnox" wrote in message
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the dog from that film you saw wrote:

that's because your pc isnt fast enough.
there's no easy way around that - get a faster pc or settle for a lower
resolution.

It's a 3 GHz Pentium IV. What do I need, a Cray supercomputer?



you certainly need faster than that yes - hardware acceleration is the best
current solution.



--
Gareth.
A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/

Arild Bjørk wrote:

Use notepad to create an empty video.pass at root level on each station,
example: c:\video.pass. Xvid uses this in multiple pass encoding.

I created the file, but that didn't help.

But I re-downlaoded and installed Xvid and now it works at 1440 x 1080.

Thanks..