The H.264 codec is the long awaited improvement to the MPEG-4 format, a codec that offers better image quality with a higher compression rate. In fact it is already being integrated to various platforms such as the iPod or the PSP.
X264
QuickTime Codec is an alternative to the codec offered by Apple and has a certaint amount of interesting options:
- Adaptative B-Frames
- B-Frame Pyramids
- Deblocking Filter
- CABAC
- B-Frame distortion ratio