[M4IF Technotes] MPEG-4 codec comparison

[Christoph Lampert]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, George Wong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When considering picture quality and bandwidth cost,
> how would you rate the following codecs for streaming
> video running on Unix?
> 
> DivX/Xvid,
> LIVE Streaming Media,
> REAL Producer

You should include FFmpeg, the possibly best solution for streaming with
Linux/Un*X. Many audio and video codecs supported (including MPEG-4 at top
speed) and a streaming server is already included. 
XviD and DivX are both no experts for streaming, their target is storage. 
Christoph
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