3ivx and QT 7?

[rotuts]

on this groups rec. I added 3ivx to my QT 6 on my G4duals OS 1.3.8

on my MP I have qt7. there does not seem to be a 3ivx component for this, correct?

I have yet to buy the QT Pro for QT 7 or the compoment for MPEG2.

I have Miglia MiniHD and its great.

in the past on the analog AlchemyDVR in the G4 Id record TV and export to 3ivx with MPEG4 sound I think and get a 20 min program into about 150MB 320 x 240 2ivx. these files started out about 2GB for 28 min analog TV

the HDTV files for the same type of show are about 875 MB Video MPEG-2, 720x480, 29.97fps dolby digital 48 hz 28 min.

the Miglia comes with eyeTV editing but I have yet to figure out how to get a similar size (150MB) 320x240 as I have in the past as 3ivx does not seem to be an option.

any help much appreciated

cheers

[mhar4]

I am not sure what your query is, but 3ivx is not compatible with Core Video, and so screws up with QT7 under OS X 10.4 Tiger, unless you're using a player which gives the option to not use Core Video, such as Niceplayer. If you're still using Panther, maybe it will be alright, worth a go, I guess.

But in any case, although the encodes are slow, H.264 is much better quality, and I long ago stopped using 3ivx. ffmpegX does a good job of H.264, or Handbrake if you can author the files as DVDs. Or Toast. Just set the image size you want and away you go.

[OmegaSupreme]

You can export directly from eyeTV into a divx, mp4 or h642 file.

[rotuts]

Great Tips!

Im just trying to export from Miglia/EyeTV from a 800 MB file to a 150MB file with reasonable video

HowTo shows, stuff like that

cheers

[mhar4]

The EyeTV export function is very useful, but it does rely on Apple's implementation of the various QT codecs. The MPEG4 implementation is weak - which is why 3ivx was viable when it competed against Apple's version of MPEG4. Similarly, I am not so convinced by their version of H.264, with the x264 version used in ffmpegX superior, I think, certainly in terms of encode speed.

There is a version of x264 as a QT plugin, although it was a bit buggy last time I tried.