Piratenscene displaced with xvid for x264 encoder

A large part of the piratengroeperingen that, among other movies and tv series illegally cast, will be henceforth called the sd releases are no longer opt for the xvid format, but the video with the x264 encoder to compress.

A large number of piratengroepen that are active in the ‘scene’ to have mutual new rules agreed for the submission of films and tv series in sd quality. Instead of the xvid format is now the open-source x264 encoder used. This open-source encoder delivers h264 videos. Releases must be further packaged in an mp4-container instead of the outdated avi container. For the sound the releasegroeperingen aac audio tracks.

Surprisingly, the transition does not. As the drafters of the new ‘scene rules’, more and more devices to work with the h264-codec. Compared with xvid produces a better quality video at a smaller file size. In addition, the x264 encoder is widely seen as a high-quality videocompressietool. Further claim the piratengroeperingen that the x264 encoder more options to the final image quality to optimize.

Xvid for many years as an alternative provided the basis for the commercial divx format. The codec is based on mpeg4, but contains a number of advanced compressiemogelijkheden, with only a limited number of devices are supported. The format is however surpassed by h264. So is hd material in the scene for some time now, using the x264 encoder for compressed. It is usually chosen for the versatile mkv container.