When I was working at a certain medical device company that shall remain nameless on the intarweb, I actually got to really get down and dirty evaluating H.263 (and its oh so infinate variations) and H.264, as well as other sorts of video streams.

There’s pretty much no comparison. 264, in any of the 5 or 6 profiles that we were evaluating was an amazing video format. It’s remarkably granular, taking 4×4, 8×8, and 16×16 sections (or even 4×2, 8×4, 16×8, etc..) and predicting how the light paths were going to move. Motion prediction is the way to go.

Just want to say, finally people are realizing what I said 3 years ago (and I have the logs to prove it, too :D)