2009-06-10, 15:32
lx01 Wrote:But don't you do that yourself by differentiating between mpeg4 and h264 (which is also mpeg4, just a different part)?Following your argument, MPEG4 is just MPEG2 with more features, which is just MPEG1 and they're all just video so why not have an icon that says VIDEO so everyone knows the video stream uses a video codec?
I just think that the current solution is somewhat inconsistent:
For DivX/XVID you're displaying a whole family of coding standards ("mpeg4") for what is really just a part of that family (Part 2 "MPEG4 ASP"), while for another part of that family you're displaying the actual codec.
The difference between them as far as I am concerned is that they use different decoders. The code acts generically, asking the demuxer "What is the name of the codec you'd use to decode this stream?" If the underlying subsystem thinks the distinction between mspeg4v2 and mpeg4 is important enough to differentiate them, that's what you get. Personally, I'd prefer less variety in the name.