What does /g/ think is the best video format? .MP4? .FLV? .Webm?

Those are containers.

uncompressed avi is the best
just put it inside a zip file

Anything other than MKV is retarded and grounds for suicide.

.mkv is best container
best codec is h.265

>>59192121

h.265 sucks

>>59191473
av1

>>59192159
Calm down everyone still uses H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

>>59192102
>Format
>xvid, divx
>codec as format

Pretty sure they both are MPEG4-ASP

>>59192128
>better quality at lower bitrate
hmmm

>>59191523
>uncompressed avi
means absolutely nothing

>just put it inside a zip file
oh great another container

>>59192121
h.265 is a standard by which h.265 codecs conform to. x265 for example is a codec.

>>59196961
>taking my post seriously

>>59196966
what's the difference between 264 and 265? I can't say I've actually seen 265 in action

>>59196914
>a slew of patent complications and retardation preventing the technology from becoming a standard
I'll be watiing for av1

>>59197008
When done correctly, there would be no difference while having an almost 50% size reduction.

>>59197008
In laymans terms, compression efficiency.
h.265 is smaller file sizes, higher quality, but more processing power needed.
For watching h265, the additional processing power isn't significant (it's really not that much more), but for encoding, it requires like 5 times as much time to encode.

I can't wait for Ryzen to come out so I can finally encode h265 without dying of old age

>>59197031
>>59197046

Huh, I guess it's not done correctly a lot then?

That sounds like a massive bonus - I know youtube uses 264, halving the bandwidth there would seem like it'd be a massive drive.

>>59197060
>Huh, I guess it's not done correctly a lot then?
>>59197016
It's not that it can't be done, it's just that the companies that own the thing are a bunch of retards.

>>59197072
reeeee companies get out of my codecs

>>59197060
It's just fairly new so it has to beat the entrenched codecs. Like how h.264 was wildly better than Xvid (remember avis?), it took so long to catch on because mostly of devices. Games consoles, TV-boxes, generally shit that people connect to TVs that plays media.

>>59197088
>>59197092
It's not that the companies are bad, it's just that the way they're handling the patents are fucking retarded.
>patent pool was created to handle licensing
>another patent pool opened up and some of the companies moved there
>a few even decide that they don't want to be a part of either patent pool but keep the patents anyways.
Getting the rights to use the technology as a whole is already big headache. The Alliance for Open Media was created when other companies realized that selling content using a certain technology is a lot more profitable than selling the right for the technology.

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>>59191473
>.MP4
Hardsubbed shit
>.FLV
Streaming shit
>.Webm
Better than .GIF by far

>>59191487
Technically they're extensions.

A proper "video format" would be things like Webm, FLV, Matroska, AVI, etc.

Those would use certain extensions like .webm/.flv/.mkv/.avl and use codecs like vp8/9, h264/h265 etc.