Friday, August 19, 2005

Video Encoding VP7 by On2 - not so good

Yes, I'm a geek and I like doing Video encoding, I don't know why, I guess it's my on going love of cruching stuff. I have tried DivX and although it's good and becoming a global standard, I don't like it because I have not had good results, still I have to say I like what the DivX team has done in release 6.

I must state I am a fan of VP6, it's got fast encoding, the image quality is great and it makes small files. But as for VP7, I am not so happy, the encoding speed is not to hot, with speeds of 1-4 fps (frames per second), VP6 does 6-14fps. The file size of my first tests are bigger than the results of VP6 . So I'm a little disappointed. I hope that this speed issue is a matter of settings or the fact that I have the Home/Personal edition. Still I will keep on with the testing of different settings and see if I can get happiness from this sex cool codec. I'm looking forward to working with the VP7 realtime encoding. Maybe it will be the magic setting that I'm looking for.

VP7 by On2 what's so hot about it? Well a nice writeup is here.