Divx quality on SmugMug?

cchausman

Anyone ever heard of Stage6? It was widely thought of as the site to go to for the BEST quality in videos.

Except the keyword is "was". Stage6 closed it's doors two years ago, it's quality was too good for it's own good, server costs were too much. They DO however, offer people to embed players into their sites.

Does or will SmugMug ever look into using Divx for their encoding software for videos? I watched the one video Divx still has available on Stage6, and it literally blew me away. If SmugMug were to utilize this, it would really stand out from the crowd, as the only other site to offer Divx for encoding is deviantART, with their 20 min/200MB max size.

I literally cut the size of my 57MB video in half with the Divx converter.

PhotoLasVegas

From what I understand, we can upload a ton of different types of vids and they will work with SmugMug. I know I have a Divx encoder in my Premiere CS5.. but never tried to upload to SmugMug. The only "problem" with Divx is that the viewer has to have the codec and it's not a "standard" one.

ziggy53

SmugMug can serve up to 1920 x 1080, 7.2Mbps, H.264 Baseline Profile video. H.264 may be thought of as a "close cousin" to DivX since they are both based on MPeg 4 compression technology. DivX certainly has no quality benefit over H.264. (This page even says that H.264 "is" a DivX dialect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX)

Learn how to encode into H.264 as the distribution format and conform to the specifications in the following links and you can achieve astonishing results.

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Video+Help
http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/How+to+convert+and+format+a+video+for+upload+to+SmugMug

Examples (Choose the "Hi-Def"/"FullHD" version of course):

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/Laforet-Videos/Reverie/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/Laforet-Videos/Nocturne-Canon-1DMKIV-Video/10024122_sqhwE#686345820_EeDCa

cchausman

ziggy53 wrote: »

SmugMug can serve up to 1920 x 1080, 7.2Mbps, H.264 Baseline Profile video. H.264 may be thought of as a "close cousin" to DivX since they are both based on MPeg 4 compression technology. DivX certainly has no quality benefit over H.264. (This page even says that H.264 "is" a DivX dialect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX)

Learn how to encode into H.264 as the distribution format and conform to the specifications in the following links and you can achieve astonishing results.

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Video+Help
http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/How+to+convert+and+format+a+video+for+upload+to+SmugMug

Examples (Choose the "Hi-Def"/"FullHD" version of course):

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/Laforet-Videos/Reverie/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/Laforet-Videos/Nocturne-Canon-1DMKIV-Video/10024122_sqhwE#686345820_EeDCa

I could have sworn Divx encodes their .mvk format in H.264 though.

ziggy53

"MKV" is the name of a video "container" file format, much like AVI and MOV. It is not limited to any particular compression technology, either for the video component or for the audio component.

Video files, in general, use "container" files (also know as "wrappers") to house the video and audio components. The video and audio components are typically "compressed" using various compression technologies, and then particular dialects of the compression technologies are commonly called "codecs".

Video software, whether capture, editing or playback software, needs to understand and accept both the video container file format as well as the computer hosting the appropriate codecs required to perform the desired compression (and/or decompression) for both audio and video.