Thanks Carlos and Lucas, My bad. Confused with the information I read as "Matroska Codec". Regards, Tamas On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Carlos Marcano wrote: > H.2009/9/2 Tamas Rudnai : > > > > I do not know what laptop is that -- OP was talking about an 18 month old > > Dell one, so I assume that is a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo or maybe an AMD. > That > > should perfectly do with software codecs -- I have a Dell laptop (Core 2 > > Duo) and have no problem even with the Matroska (MKV) codec, which > > compresses the HD movie to a very high density (a HD Ready movie fits > into a > > single layer DVD). However, MKV needs a huge CPU power to uncompress and > > play the content -- unlike the H.264 which as far as I know was designed > to > > be able to play on a less powerful embedded machine. > > Tamas, > > MKV is a container, meaning it stores the real data and the > information about how such data is stored within the file itself. In > fact, as it is an open container, MKV is a very flexible and it can > store almost anything you throw at it, so you can have an MKV file > with data stored in H.264. > > In the other hand, MKV is ussually used to store H.264 compressed data > using X.264 open source encoder; */possible flame starter alert/* it > is said by some people that this encoder produces smaller files from > the same source than other proprietay encoders */possible flame > starter end/*. That *could* be the difference. Also you might be > playing back 720p encoded files as they are ussualy made to fit in > DVD-5. > > Regards, > > Carlos. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.mcuhobby.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist