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Anyone still using Xvid?
JoonasTo:
Yes.
Space.
whiic:
The question presented in the title about "using XviD" is completely different from "grabbing xvid encodes when h264 ones are available?"
Using != downloading.
Using as in encoding: I may still use XviD (high-bitrate encoding with no B-frames) when encoding stuff for some rare occasions (like AMV Hell entries) (h.264 would be bad for re-editing, lossless would take an eternity to transfer via Internet to someone else) . I also use HuffYUV lossless codec (for editing files locally (multigigabyte filesizes is no issue)). And of course h.264 which my final encode not used for editing purposes.
Using as in watching: if I have stuff as XviD codec, I can watch it. Deleting files and re-downloading a better looking h.264 encoded rip isn't always worth it (or even possible). If I have XviD in MKV/OGM (softsubbed) I usually don't bother to re-download just for better picture quality. However if I have XviD AVI, h.264 is killing two flies with one swing, as I can probably get both the superior video and softsubs at the same time. Obviously I've also been swapping my collection from TV-rips to DVD-rips at the process of getting h.264.
But now for the actual intended question... downloading XviD content
There has to be a very good reason for me to download XviD content today (decision to keep what I already have downloaded has a much lower requirements), such as
- no h.264 available, all the h.264 releases RAW or extremely badly subbed
- h.264s for said title are all hardsubbed MP4, where as XviD alternative would be in MKV/OGM container and softsubbed
Noteworthy is that XviD/MKV doesn't qualify as lowest rank of video on BakaBT (XviD/AVI does) so it would be competing directly with h.264/MP4, and most likely lose. Therefore I'd be getting it from some other site instead.
If this question is whether BakaBT should even continue to accept XviD offers if better ones are available, I couldn't care less. Even most non-PC mediaplayers (like WDTV, Popcorn Hour, DVD players, etc.) support h.264 nowadays. Of course some still use old DVD players but even they probably have at least one relatively recent PC to play it if their DVD player can't do it. So yeah, I think we should let XviD die already. Do we drive with cars that have sidevalve engines anymore? It could be arguable that we should drive those... after all manufacture of new sidevalve engines would ensure that there would be no trouble getting replacement parts for T-Fords.
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--- Quote from: wolkec on April 29, 2010, 01:28:19 PM ---there are plenty of cinema films on xvid
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I guess the idea behind the question was whether you'd get XviD release when also a h.264 release is available. Cinema film pirates are technologically just f'ing hillbillies in their XviD/AVI fetish. Even for cinematic films, I favour h.264 and MKV with softsubs (but as most cinematic films are English, I can take them in raw English without subtitles... or if necessarily jack an extrenal .srt to it).
Answers like this (if they affect voting as well) totally invalidate the meaning of the whole poll. After all, title is "Anyone still using Xvid?" (which is technically isn't even a question but a statement with a question mark after it) is clearly in contraction to clarifications made in the first post, and poll question is "Yes or no?" (which againt techn... ok, stop the grammar nazism). Whether people vote on the topic or the clarification probably varies and result of the poll is totally random and invalid for any interpretation.
This poll should be restarted with a PROPER QUESTION.
EDIT - newy: And you should use the editing function...
Rebs:
--- Quote from: wolkec on April 29, 2010, 01:28:19 PM ---there are plenty of cinema films on xvid
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This is true, which is why I also still use Xvid. I also have a DVD player that supports it. However, I haven't dowloaded a film in months... I wanted to start getting some h.264 encoded films, but I do lack harddrive space :( and the will to keep pirating :-[.
Hmm, I haven't downloaded anime in quite a while either :D
Hizoka003:
i get whatever the groups release... seeing how hardly anyone does xvid anymore, i guess the answer is just that....
now do you guys go for the HQ every time or does it vary show to show
for me it varys show to do... naruto has too many filler for my to use the space for HQ every time, so i typically go LQ on that where as One Piece has few filler so i got the 720p every ep
DVSKaz:
--- Quote from: wolkec on April 29, 2010, 01:28:19 PM ---there are plenty of cinema films on xvid
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Cinema? C'mon, I think it's pretty much a given if I'm on this site I'm an anime freak! Anyone I watch "cinema" or at the movie theatres .... can't beat the super huge screen and awesome sound systems.
The reason the "scene" releases to XVID/AVI is simply for compatibility reasons. Name one type of player that WON'T play this file type. Until hardware manufacturers update their boxes to accept other codecs (M$/SONY/PANASONIC/ETC) we will see XVID/AVI as the mainstay of all releases.
EDIT - I want to point out that I am in favor of 720p ... just in XVID/AVI! There's already a few release groups who specially in this ... NPW comes to mind off the top of my head.
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