| Term | Meaning | Relevance to your file | |------|---------|------------------------| | Ghosts | TV show | S03E10 = “The Heirloom” | | S03E10 | Season 3, Episode 10 | ~21 min runtime | | OpenH264 | Cisco’s H.264 encoder | Lower quality than x264 |
| Encoder | Quality (same bitrate) | Speed | Compatibility | |---------|------------------------|-------|----------------| | x264 (software) | Excellent | Slow | Universal | | OpenH264 | Moderate (less efficient, more blocking) | Fast | Universal | | Hardware H.264 (GPU) | Good | Very fast | Universal |
, openh264 usually means the video stream was encoded using the OpenH264 encoder (not x264, not hardware H.264).