Which video format has the best about everything ( quality, bit rate...) !?

[coxanhvn]

Which video format has the best about everything ( quality, bit rate... ) !?

[marioval]

I'm no pro but I don't think that question really has an answer. Any video format can be of high or low quality.

[RabidDog]

VCD mpeg1 is without doubt acknowledged by all to be the best format. No arguments, no buts, no ifs no maybes!

[guns1inger]

@RabidDog LMAO

@coxanhvn : Horses for courses mate. It really depends on what you want and what you are doing as to what is the best codec at the time. All have their place.

DV is great for editing, but needs space.

Lagarith and Huffyuv are great intermediate formats when processing video, but need huge amounts of space.

H.264 is great for small file sizes, but useless for editing and slow to compress.

Xvid/Divx is fine for a compromise of file size versus quality for playback on capable, standalone players.

Then you have sepcialist codecs like techsmith for screen cam processing.

[redwudz]

Or uncompressed RGB with WAV audio. Takes up a bit of space, though.

But a lot depends on what you plan to do with the video. The most universal codec may be MPEG-2 as used in DVDs. It's capable of good resolution at a reasonable file size. And it works well with 5.1 AC3 audio.

If you want a more compact format, Xvid and Divx may suit you if you still want playback on a stand alone player.

Higher compression and even smaller size, H.264, Nero Digital are a couple of choices. But they take more time to encode and more CPU power to play back and not really suited for stand alone uses.

marioval is correct. There's really no simple answer to your question.

And welcome to our forums.

[edDV]

Which meat has the best about everything ( quality, taste ... long life ) !?

[ntscuser]

Which video format has the best about everything ( quality, bit rate... ) !?

If we're talking about copying a commercial DVD then DVD+DL gives the best possible results.

[coxanhvn]

So, what is the video format for a DVD, and does it have any software that can convert a DVD to that format. I mean is the best format here the format of the video DVD...
Thank you all of you for answer me!

[edDV]

So, what is the video format for a DVD, and does it have any software that can convert a DVD to that format. I mean is the best format here the format of the video DVD...
Thank you all of you for answer me!

DVD is always MPeg2
https://www.videohelp.com/dvd.
Some DVD players also play divx/xvid files.

[stiltman]

I would say
OMF or XMF

Then again, I'm sure you don't want to use them

[coxanhvn]

so, do you know any software can convert to a good MPEG2 file, the best converter... thanks for reply

[ntscuser]

so, do you know any software can convert to a good MPEG2 file, the best converter... thanks for reply

On the left side of this page there's a column and a souple of inches down there's a heading "How To" followed by "Convert". It has all the information you need there.

I personally prefer TMPGEnc Plus 2.5

[guns1inger]

What format are you converting from ?

[redwudz]

coxanhvn, you generally need to ask a specific question to get a specific answer.

General questions, like 'what is best' will get general answers.

I'm afraid there's no substitute for a bit of reading and studying the different formats and procedures. There's no 'magic way' to do a perfect conversion with no complications or problems unless you know the conversion procedures and a fair amount about your source files.

For a newbie, I would start out with the all-in-one converters. The payware ConvertXToDVD is highly recommended. Or for freeware, try FAVC. From there, read and study......

[thecoalman]

so, do you know any software can convert to a good MPEG2 file, the best converter... thanks for reply

Assuming you mean convert DVD discs from one of your previous questions you don't need a converter but a ripping program. This simply takes the .vob files and turns them into usable MPEG files. There is no conversion, almost like changing the extension from .vob to .mpg. It's a n exact copy of just the video and audio portions on the DVD.

vob2mpg is one such program but it doesn't work on protected DVD's .

[Shibblet]

If you are looking to archive movies for playback on your PC or Media Server... Xvid with AC3 seems to be the best size to quality, archivable format.

[PuzZLeR]

Everybody's got their "needs" in video, and different priorities. Mine are:

1. Overall support/compatibility. I don't care how "good" a codec is. If it has no support with software and devices, I don't want it.

2. Compression. I want the most quality in the smallest possible file size. I would dislike an overly large file size.

3. Editing Ease. A nice feature in case I want to make changes with as little pain as possible.

4. Processing Ease. The easier it is to encode, the nicer it would be. But since I do most of my encoding overnight with a relatively fast PC, it's not as important. I would personally take 20% more encoding time to produce significant compression improvement, but would not do something crazy like increase my encoding time by 3x to get 5% more quality.

Depends what you want. My winners for each, in order.

1. MPEG-2, DivX/Xvid, H.264
2. H.264, DivX/Xvid, MPEG-2
3. MPEG-2, DivX/Xvid, H.264
4. MPEG-2, DivX/Xvid, H.264

My overall winner today? MPEG-2.
My middle-of-the-road, best-of-everything? DivX/Xvid.
My winner of the future? H.264, due to blu-ray and other devices, and better software and PCs in the future.

As for formats like DV and HuffYUV - huge files sizes but great for preserving quality and processing. But these are mostly for temporary files in many cases, so I won't go into detail here.

What are your order of needs? Then assess, which is "best".

so, do you know any software can convert to a good MPEG2 file, the best converter

The best MPEG-2 encoder in my opinion is Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE).

[Nelson37]

Something not yet addressed is whether or not the OP is getting into HD. The main difference this makes is that filesizes can quickly get out of hand.

Experience tells me that once I am preparing for storage, editing is no longer a concern. Quality, filesize, compatibility. H264 is to me a clear winner here, with the drawbacks of somewhat limited tools and long encoding times. Fairly soon these problems will be eliminated. Playback outside the PC is probably already ahead of Divx/Xvid.

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