Currently it seems x265 can clearly beat x264 at the ultra-low bitrates, where x264 already looks ugly and x265 still manages to look okay. x265 seems to be on a good way, but is still a relatively young project.
There are worlds(!) between today's x264 and some "crappy" H.264/AVC encoders (or x264 from the early days).
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It depends a lot on the encoder software being used! Remember that it took many years of constant development and improving to get x264 to where it is nowadays. At standard DVD resolutions the benefit is smaller!įurthermore, just using a "new" video compression standard doesn't ensure better results than using an "older" video compression standard, regardless of what "improvement" the standardization committee proclaims. In addition to that, H.265/HEVC probably has the biggest advantages (compared to H.264/AVC) at HD and especially UHD resolutions. Re-compressing might result in a very watchable video but never one at the same quality. If you want smaller at the same quality with the new codec you have to re-rip from the original. Even Xvid, as old as it is, generally looks noticeably better than a re-encode to even the same bit-rate HEVC. Its artifacts are different too it loses detail before blocking which tends to look better to most people. HEVC is more efficient, but not enough to overcome the generation loss. This is unlikely to be achieved unless the source codec is very old or already has well over the bitrate needed for transparency (e.g. This is obviously not a fair comparison but I hear of a lot of people re-encoding an already lossily encoded video and expecting the newer codec to have the same quality as and be smaller than the source. In that situation H.265 is not enough more efficient that even at the same size the quality is noticeably worse (noticeably is, of course, viewer dependent). This does not hold true if encoding from the H.264 file as the source and comparing the resulting encode against that. the ST and STX also support DD Live and believe have a flex jack.Hevc offers same visual or subject quality with half bitrate compared to avc approximately, if that's what you wanna knowĪt least that is the goal of HECV, I am not sure it has achieved it (yet). The DS also has the DTS technologies of the DSX and the DX and D1 are actually HTPC optimized cards and do DD Live as DD is more common than DTS but is worse quality but more efficient.
Actually looks like the DSX has a flex juack that you can use witha 3.5mm adapter on the optical cable.
The DSX that you mention does have DTS Connect and the other thing you mentioned but It how ever does not have an optical port so he couldnt use it which is funny because the DGX that does have the optical port doesnt have the technology. This is why he needs a sound card that can do real time encoding using either DD Live or DTS Connect. To answer your question again he needs to convert a PCs normally uncompressed digital out to compressed using either DD or DTS because at best his receiver supports uncompressed stereo and not uncompressed multichannel audio. They do actually because if he had a HDMI receiver and not one that only had optical as the only means for digital audio this thread wouldnt even exsist. I don't see how HDMI receivers relate to OP's toslink connection, or to anything I said. I know very little about how toslink works and what it's capable of its just a temporary solution and I wouldn't mind investing in a sound card anyway I could be wrong but I was hoping I could encode the audio as dts and get the 5.1 working on the optical connection. When playing files that are already encoded such as a bluray all five speakers work fine it's when playing games and the like it's in stereo. Might have it wrong the way I have it in my head at the minute one of the connections is broken on a home theater setup I have which is a fairly old str de 475 I was previously using rca connectors between my motherboard and recieverįor a temp switch until I can buy a new audio setup it looks like I'm stuck with a toslink connectionĪfter some reading it seems to get 5.1 over toslink I thought I needed a Soundcard to encode the regular audio as dts or a 3 to get the rest of my speakers working instead of stereo.Īt the moment I just have a p8z68 v pro/gen3 and am just using the on board Soundcard