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In collaboration with a friend of mine, we’ve started a new website called H264info.com. It’s a small website that talks about H.264 and provides information, links, instructions and downloads for H.264.
I’m a huge fan of H.264. It’s taking a video compression format like DivX or XviD, and then adding even more compression on top of that – you can get a 25% file size reduction with very little quality difference. Best of all, unlike (in my opinion anyway) DivX or XviD, H.264 scales well up as well as down – 1080p clips look amazing (check out The Simpsons Movie 1080p trailer for yourself if you don’t believe me).
Apple is using it (see Steve Jobs getting excited over it here). Blu-ray and HD DVD are using. So is Sony in its PSP. Even Microsoft, with their competing VC-1 format, has jumped on board by adding support for it on the Xbox 360.
So why isn’t everybody else using it? Part of the problem is that it’s still relatively difficult to get H.264 movies to play on your computer, and the other is that most people don’t know about it. h264info.com will hopefully try and solve these problems.