Video codec
Author: ffDiaporama Team

The following table lists the video codecs which ffDiaporama can use to generate videos:

Codec | Name | WIKIPEDIA/Remark
MPJEP | Motion JPEG | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG
MPEG2 | MPEG-2 video | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2
MPEG4 | DivX/XVid/MPEG-4 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid
H264HQ | High Quality H.264 AVC/MPEG-4 AVC | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC ffDiaporama uses specific settings for encoding with x264. This settings are including: - High Quality for "Home Cinema" devices based on x264 main profile, with 3 refs and 3 bframes. - Phone Quality for mobile devices based on x264 baseline profile, with 3 refs and 0 bframes. Both settings are using veryfast preset. Note: Variable bitrate is used with these two codecs. For more information on variable bitrate, see: Render video
H264PQ | Phone Quality H.264 AVC/MPEG-4 AVC
X264LL | x264 Lossless | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264 ffDiaporama uses the standard x264 fast preset with 3 refs and qp set to 0.
VP8 | WebP (WebM-VP8) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
H263 | Sorenson H.263 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.263
THEORA | Theora VP3 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora