x264 vs Xvid

[respect]

Hi people,

Anyone can tell me what's the difference of this quality video? What's the better? What's the advantage or disadvantage of each one?

Thanks for your help

[lynx]

It's far too complex for anyone to really give any meaningful answer here.

http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/mpeg-4_avc_h264_2006_en.html
While that's primarily a comparison of H264 codecs, there's also a comparison with Divx for reference. The links to more info about various video codecs will probably give you far more than you can cope with.

[mr. nails]

short & sweet:

h264 is the better codec over xvid, but using h264 will require u to have a better pc.

[respect]

short & sweet:

h264 is the better codec over xvid, but using h264 will require u to have a better pc.
Yeah I already see that ... I try to watch the new episode of Heroes and I see better quality of h264 but I don't watch the all episode because of the breaks that I have when watching :( thanks for the answer you to lynx

[gan970]

I thank you too lynx!

[Racket]

Use coreavc to decode x264 and even lower end pc's should work! Get rid of that FFDshow mess, etc.

[mojoman]

i prefer XVID nice in size and quality is decent