H.264 vs. X.264 Codecs

[Seeker47]

Got a reasonable overview on this from a Google AI query, but one not really resolving anything about this for me. In practical, real-world usage -- mainly playback of video files, across a range of devices -- I don't really notice any significant differences between these two. Kind of flip a coin, or whichever happened to be available. Am I wrong about that ? Might make some difference if you were creating / encoding the file to begin with, having some particular end use result in mind ?

[krykmoon]

X.264 is not a codec but an open source library (used by almost every open source application) to encode in the h.264 format.

(i don't know why so much people rely on that AI crap to have any type of answer when it's still so easy to find much more useful information with search engines.. this is the first link if you do a search with <whatever> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264)

[davexnet]

This is what shows up in DuckDuckgo. Sometimes it will open its "search assist" automatically,
seems like it depends on the phrasing of your search argument

[krykmoon]

This is what shows up in DuckDuckgo. Sometimes it will open its "search assist" automatically,
seems like it depends on the phrasing of your search argument

Yes, since I also use DuckDuckgo.

(anyway.. both better first results that asking to the AI crap )

[LigH.de]

ITU-T H.264 (capital H, dot) is a standard for video compression. The theory about it, written in a document.


And x264 (lower-case x, no dot) is one of many different software implementations of this standard. A practical use of the theory.