look at the damn filesize in comparison to the image quality and fps used... there goes your xvid argument. A half decent codec pack or something like vlc handles x264 quite nicely.
x264 is light years ahead of xvid and yes i've played HD x264 files fine on specs much lower than what you posted (2600+ athlon xp with 512mb ram). i've said this before but most of the time playback issues with x264 are only because of codec conflicts which often arise from the usage of codec packs. x264 sys requirements are indeed higher than xvid but not as high as some people make it out to be.
x264 gives much better quality than xvid at the same filesizes. i actually compared an x264 encode and an xvid encode of the same content weighing in at the exact same filesize. x264 did a much better job at retaining detail and sharpness. here are 2 screenies from that test.
A friendly piece of advice: next time use PNG, it's a proper internets format and lossless, and a quick test shows it only takes like ~260 KB instead of 1,2 MB! :-------)
Edited by Pushpabon at 07:29 CST, 10 December 2006
+ Star Wars, Heroes, Sonic/Mario was ok.
+ Picture quality was great.
+ Music worked well
- Too much cutting and changing angles/viewpoints every half a second + slow-mo
- Low fov in some sections (No doubt it's 90 and It's just totally alien to me now)
- Frags weren't anything special (There were some nice ones though)
- Gun models/Effects
the mario/sonic part made me laugh :) really creative and different movie, as the others the only thing I didn't like were the gun models aswell. amazing work o/
wth... is that a transformer in the screenshot?