[lexluthor]

Nice post.

I've been doing a lot of testing on this over the last few days.

I have a DVD that I've been encoding to 640x480, Video at 700kbps, Audio at 160kbps.

If I encode the video as xvid, it plays at about 20fps in coreplayer. It's dropping a few frames, but it's not too bad. Other xvids that I've played that are more widescreen, like 640x345 play without dropping frames.

If I encode the video as h.264, coreplayer plays it at less than 5fps and it's unwatchable.

If I play that h.264 video in WMP, it plays well. I don't know if there's a way to get the fps or see dropped frames in WMP, but it looks fine to me.

At the same bitrate, I'd say h.264 looks a bit better than xvid.

I like Coreplayer much better than WMP, so I think I'll just encode my own stuff to xvid, but if you obtain videos elsewhere, I think the rule would be to play xvid (and probably divx) in coreplayer and h.264 in wmp or htc album.