single-pass 8fps h.264 encoding to 2mbit/sec.
gotta love it. nero recode2 on windows. generates .mp4 (quicktime-on-mac compatible) files. i hope to have some quick samples up in the next 24 hours, gotta go check out a "doing graduate skool in australia" seminar now...
you may laugh at 8 frames per sec, but i'll talk more on it, and this is not meant to be a quicktime7-on-mac vs nero-on-windows h.264 shootout, but more to highlight and share for those with windows boxes how to offload decent h.264 encoding to the windows box(s) and also enjoy h.264 2mbit/sec near-dvd-quality stuff on one's mac....
speak later, gotta run...
you may laugh at 8 frames per sec, but i'll talk more on it, and this is not meant to be a quicktime7-on-mac vs nero-on-windows h.264 shootout, but more to highlight and share for those with windows boxes how to offload decent h.264 encoding to the windows box(s) and also enjoy h.264 2mbit/sec near-dvd-quality stuff on one's mac....
speak later, gotta run...
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however, just wanted to mention that Nero Recode 2
http://www.nerodigital.com/eng/index.html
seems to offer a nice package of ease-of-use and fairly respectable h.264/avc 1-pass encoding on a windows box
some points:
--brightness/contrast tweaks would be a nice 'cheat' for aesthetic purposes
--at the speed of 1-pass encoding xvid/3ivx may offer a better alternative to nero h.264/avc
--for h.264 two pass encodings i think a quality/time taken shootout between quicktime7-on-powermac g5s and nero-h.265-avc-on-intel/amd configs would be a killer benchmark to run.
anyone got a spare amd athlon 3400 or above and intel pentium 4 and dualie powermac g5 lying around to run some benchs?
it is interesting to note that quicktime7 h.264 is either 1pass or multipass, whereas nero-h.264/avc is either single pass or twopass. quicktime7 is quite slow on the multipass encoding part but that's where it really weaves its bitrate magic.