Is VicBond007's 2004 Guide still relevant?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:59 am

dust wrote:Scan lines are normal, what I'm looking at are the jagged animation lines. I can't figure it out!

Don't worry about it. It isn't a de-interlacing issue. Rather, it is a resizing issue. It looks like simple resize is being used instead bicubic or lanczos. This is typical when resizing certain encodes in certain players. If you resize the video in an editing program it should be fine...

dust · Post by **dust** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:31 pm

Thanks to all those who helped, my problem was a resizing issue that was not addressed by EATFAG. --(or whatever the new one is called)

With your help and some unexpected solo problem-solving I was able to finish the video in time for the contest deadline ^_^

btw: what's up with H.264? I wasn't paying attention when it came out. The quality is amazing for the small size! Is there a drawback I'm not aware of?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:00 pm

it's been out for a while now, and seems to be pretty popular amongst forum regulars

the only main drawback is that you'll probably get people who complain saying, "I downloaded this video but can't see anything."

it takes a bit more cpu power to decode, so old computers may not be able to playback without lag

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:13 pm

Kariudo wrote:the only main drawback is that you'll probably get people who complain saying, "I downloaded this video but can't see anything."

I think we are probably at the point these days where if someone has decoders capable of playing divx or xvid content, then they will more than likely be able to play h.264 content as well. The cpu requirements for playback might still be a valid concern though.