[theora-dev] File size comparisons

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

 On 10/18/2010 08:26 AM, salsaman wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just did a brief test with 3 different codec combinations:
>
> 1) ffmpeg sorenson/flv, mp3 audio in flv container
> 2) ffmpeg h264/vorbis audio/matroska
> 3) ogg/theora/vorbis using encoder_example
>
> Here are the results:
>
> 10721201 2010-10-16 14:46 origem1.flv
> 20731108 2010-09-13 23:04 origem1.mkv
> 33101703 2010-10-03 11:24 origem1.ogv
>
> as you can see, flv wins hands down, and it doesn't look too good for .ogv :-(
>
> Regards,
> Salsaman.
>
These numbers are really not helpful if we don't know the settings that
you used, the versions of the software used, and then also look at the
resulting files.  For example, if you just used defaults, the defaults
for each vary widely, and also are likely not optimized for each case.