Follow-up on Microsoft's H.264 choice for IE9

Re:Follow-up on Microsoft's H.264 choice for IE9 by ZeroGravitas on Monday May 03, 2010 @04:40PM (#1316006)

Handbrake has a horrendous UI. It just about copes if you need to rip a DVD to the best possible quality, but if you stray from that happy path it's murder.

Have you tried the Miro Video Converter? It's supposed to be easy and does H.264 for iPod, Nexus 1 etc. as well as Theora at web rates:

http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/

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Re:Follow-up on Microsoft's H.264 choice for IE9 by smokinn on Monday May 03, 2010 @04:44PM (#1316025)

No, I'd never seen that. It looks like exactly what I've wanted to recommend to people.

I didn't say I was happy with recommending handbrake, it was simply the least complicated option I had seen and my brother seemed to be able to muddle through so it was just good enough.

Miro looks a lot better though, thanks!

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Re:Follow-up on Microsoft's H.264 choice for IE9 by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @09:07AM (#1317879)

Just to correct myself slightly it appear to be (currently) using MPEG4 part 2 (Xvid) for most of its presets, though they tested H.264 encodes for certain phones.

https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki...

I'd be interested in their reasoning for this, though I remember for a while the best quality possible on iPods regardless of time to encode was high bitrate MPEG4. I wonder how big a difference there is at these screen sizes?

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