Nero Digital VS X264

[mohawkcr]

Does anyone have experience with both and if so which do you think produces better quality? Is Nero Digital the same thing as x264? Which one is faster to encode? thank you

[fritzi93]

For what it's worth, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

Nero Digital can generate streams in the 3GP/MPEG-4 Part 14 (".mp4") container format and includes two video and two audio codecs:

• ASP (one of about 20 profiles defined in MPEG-4 Part 2)
• AVC (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 or H.264)
• AAC-LC (the most widely used AAC profile defined in MPEG-4 Part 3)
• HE-AAC (defined in MPEG-4 Part 3, sometimes referenced as "aacPlus" or other, similar trademarks)

The codecs are compliant with the ISO/IEC standard, with the exception of subtitles and chapter information. The video streams generated by Nero Digital can be played back on some stand-alone hardware players and software media players such as the company's own Nero Showtime.


Really, what's the point? Someone explain it to me. Why would I want a proprietary container/format playable on *some* players, when there are perfectly good well-supported existing alternatives? Compliant except (!?) for subtitles and chapters? Huh? That's like being a little pregnant, you is or you ain't.


Please forgive me, I'm not a Nero fan. But I'm done scoffing now.

[poisondeathray]

x264 can is better in every way than Nero AVC. It's highly configurable and can be set to encode faster than nero , or slower with significantly better quality than Nero AVC. Nero's engine is a limited version of Ateme's AVC Encoder

[mohawkcr]

Thank you for the answers. I will use x264

[lordsmurf]

Nero -- the perfect example of trying to do everything, and sucking at all of them.
Including what they used to be good at -- burning discs.
Sad.