Foreground one is better. There is less of a shadow element to it. There is more clarity also. Look at the face in both, the one in the foreground has more detail. Also look at the curtains, more detail there also. Also the foreground capture is just a bit brighter and on a small screen device you want it to be as clear and bright enough so ya don't have to be squinting. But depending on what device you are setting this up for you could be looking for smaller file size with a hit to quality as opposed to quality with bigger file. Ya setting something up for a phone?
If I am not mistaken the foreground capture is mpeg4?
I've been doing a bunch of these with ImTOO video converter for my phone and also some for PSP with pspVideo9. 😀
The top in the background looks better imo. There is less grain noise and seems slighly crisper. Although, as VenomXT said its not a great scene for comparison.
h264 has a better deblocking and deringing algorith. Its also less lossy than mpeg4.
x264 is not the best tool to use though 🙂 You want to find a windows box with CoreAVC 🙂
Along with everyone else, I'd say the top one. 🙂
x264 is not the best tool to use though You want to find a windows box with CoreAVC
Quicktime Pro, since that has IMHO the best h264 encoder.
h264 has a better deblocking and deringing algorith. Its also less lossy than mpeg4
fact: "imtoo" is crap 😛
Nero digital has the current best encoder/decoder but its windows only
The people that make CoreAVC make an encoder too last I heard though I've never looked to verify if that is true or not.
the bottom one has compression artifacts all over it
Could be, I have used others but... but it works for me quite well. For my phone anyway (which is the reason I use it). And that's all that matters, to me. 😀
X-Istence, what exactly are you doing?