[vdr] Compressing VDR recordings without losing quality.

[Tony Houghton]

On 30/10/10 02:50, VDR User wrote:
> 
> That sounds good when you read the datasheets but real world results
> are a bit different.  Also, what you're referring to is encoding
> comparisons all from a raw source - not mpeg2 vs. the same mpeg2
> reencoded in h264.  I can't stress enough that there is no magic to be
> had here for the reasons in my previous post.

And I wonder is there still much room for improvement in current H264
encoders? The various MPEG 4 part 2 codecs (DivX etc) improved a great
deal over time, and ISTR reading that the first H264 encoders offered
almost no practical improvement over the newest part 2 codecs at the
time.

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk