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MPEG-4AVC

H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC, is a video compression standard defined in part 10 of the MPEG-4 specifications. also known as MPEG-4 AVC, or simply AVC (Advanced Video Coding). AVC standards for "Advanced Video Coding", and is also known as H264. It can compress about 10 times better than MPEG-2 video compression, and about 1.8 times better than MPEG-4 ASP codecs.

Playback Requirements

You will need these things in order to play H.264 encoded releases:

Hardware

• An Intel/AMD based machine (or compatible) with 1GHz CPU or faster (it played on our P3 1 ghz)
  • Slower systems of around 800MHz, particularly AMD Athlon, may play a limited amount of H.264 encodes.
• A PPC based Mac with a G4 1Ghz CPU or faster; any G5 CPU (When using a G4 CPU, you will require at least 512MB RAM)
• H.264 compatible decoder
• compatible media player
• MP4 splitter, if the video is in mp4 format
• MKV splitter, if the video is in mkv format

For Windows
There are a few popular methods of playing H.264 encoded files on Windows:

• Use latest ffdshow. Currently, the official 2005-11-29 build is recommended.
  • When you install FFDShow, uncheck all postprocessing options, and check the box to decode Ogg Vorbis.
  • With FFDShow installed, you can play most releases with the majority of the media players available, such as Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Zoom Player, and BSPlayer.
  • Alternatively, you may use the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP). Do not use any other codec packs (such as K-Lite).
• Use VLC media player, which has built-in codec and splitter to handle our releases. Make sure you have the latest version (at least 0.8.5).
• Use the latest version of CoreAVC. CoreAVC is payware developed by CoreCodec, but tests from Doom9 have shown that CoreAVC is significantly faster than other solutions.
  • Best option for people with slower computers or people looking to watch high definition H.264.

For Mac OS X

• MPlayerOSX (b8r3 or higher) can handle H.264 encodes, as can VLC media player for OS X

For Linux/Unix

• MPlayer can play these files just fine.

Related Links

FFDShow
Haali's splitter
VLC Media Player
Mplayer