What's the difference ?

[waeldiab]

Hi guys,

I want to know What's the difference between ( Blu-ray )

H.264
MPEG-2
VC-1

regards

[Talkaboutfiles]

http://www.videohelp.com/

This site Should answer your questions.

[ca_aok]

Generally MPEG-2 HD encodes are seen when a transport stream is used as the source, since it's the standard encoding format for a TS.

H264 has a number of improvements over the MPEG standard formats, though listing them all would be an exercise in futility. It exists as a joint format with MPEG-4 part 10 as well with H.264/MPEG-4 AVC in an attempt to standardize the format. More reference frames and a better approach to quantization come to mind. H.264 is used on Bluray discs (though MPEG-2 is also used in some cases), as well as most web sourced HD videos such as those from the iTunes store. It's also the encoding format of choice for most HD encoders due to its good performance to compression ratio and advanced features.

VC-1 was a proprietary microsoft improvement to the MPEG-2/MPEG-4 part 2 standard that was used as the standard video format for the Xbox360, and was used as the one of the formats on HD DVDs before the format went defunct. It's also used on some blurays, usually in conjunction with Dobly's new "TrueHD" sound format.

Unless you have some pressing compatibility issues I wouldn't worry about it too much though

[waeldiab]

thanks for your reply.but if i have to choose which one should i go with?

[ca_aok]

When in doubt, go with H.264 unless you have a pressing reason to do otherwise.

[sake]

http://www.videohelp.com/

This site Should answer your questions.

Very nice site. Thank you.

[Talkaboutfiles]

http://www.videohelp.com/

This site Should answer your questions.

Very nice site. Thank you.

Your welcome

I learned how to properly encode films like the pros,
thanks to videohelp/afterdawn forums

thanks for your reply.but if i have to choose which one should i go with?

Also i would go with H264 aka x264 when in doubt
Then again my favorite encodes are Brrip's,plays nice with my xbmc.

[Artemis]

Another helpful resource particularly for encoding is the http://www.doom9.org/ forum, that and http://www.afterdawn.com/ forum have most of the help info out there for any encoding, conversion, codec issues I have ever come across.

[J-dye]

lol its in the quality

[Lovestoned]

Use H.264.

It's really easy to use x264 along with MeGUI, try it.