H.264

[mhar4]

I've had more of a chance to play with H.264 in Quicktime 7, and it looks fantastic with amazingly low bitrates. A quantum leap over MPEG-4. But man on my 1Ghz G4 PowerBook it is slow to encode. Grow old and die kind of slow. It must be doing 1 or 2 frames per second. I have 512MB of RAM. Any other user experiences?

[DanSlagle]

Slow is not the word on my dual 533

[mhar4]

So what is the word?

crawling, creeping, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, gradual, imperceptible, inactive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, listless, plodding, ponderous, slothful, slow-moving, sluggish, snaillike, stagnant, supine, tardy, torpid, tortoiselike

or

speedily, apace, expeditiously, hypersonic, flat-out, full tilt, lickety-split, like wildfire, presto, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappy, swiftly, velocious,

[AntnyMD]

tingly

[DanSlagle]

Well I don't know if I can some up this in one word... waiting for 5 minutes (on a 8 minutes video short I did) then seeing the first silver of progress. Go have a beer watch some TV come back and seeing it not even 10% done. It was maybe 10 o'clock so I went to bed. It did manage to finish by the time I got up at 6 A.M.

So one word...

SSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWWWW

crawling, creeping, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, gradual, imperceptible, inactive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, listless, plodding, ponderous, slothful, slow-moving, sluggish, snaillike, stagnant, supine, tardy, torpid, tortoiselike

or

speedily, apace, expeditiously, hypersonic, flat-out, full tilt, lickety-split, like wildfire, presto, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappy, swiftly, velocious,

The Thesaurus does rock in Tiger huh?

[rotuts]

well anoother reason in the + bucket for a new G5.

rotuts

[edDV]

Its called an asymetric codec.
Long encode time, reasonable decode processing.

High compression has cost. The cost is either time or Mips.

[DanSlagle]

well anoother reason in the + bucket for a new G5.

rotuts

Yep I am waiting till June so I can get me one of the new fancy HD-DVD drives.

[rotuts]

you think HD will be available that soon? you mean the "blue-Ray" 40gb stuff?

rotuts

[edDV]

you think HD will be available that soon? you mean the "blue-Ray" 40gb stuff?

rotuts

Expect to pay $$$$ for first generation. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray seem to be working for a common standard. This may delay intro.

[DanSlagle]

you think HD will be available that soon? you mean the "blue-Ray" 40gb stuff?

rotuts

I am "hoping", if nothing else, if I wait for the Summer release of hardware I will be able to pick up something faster than 2.7 Ghz for under 3 grand.

My 22" cinema display is still working perfectly so I will probably just have to cough up the $92 bucks for the ADC to DVI connector. Unless one of you guys want to give me like a grand for it

[baturjan]

you gonna need it. I have a dual 2GHz G5 and QT7 Pro is still slow. For a 45 sec clip DV, I think it took almost 10 min. or so. The compression though is amazing. I haven't figured out the thresholds for quality versus compression, but it took a 154MB DV (720x480) and made it 1.5 MB (720x480). The quality wasn't the best but I'm initially very impressed.