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What is the difference between AVC and VC-1?

Diana Joan

Jul 05, 2016 05:26 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Blu-ray

People often rip Blu-rays with Makemkv. However, sometimes, they found that they couldn’t play their Blu-ray MKV rips even in the powerful Kodi. Why? That’s because some Blu-rays are encoded with AC-1 instead of AVC/h.264. Many devices and media player can’t stream AC-1 Blu-rays.

“I’ve been watching latelly some early releases from Warner Bros. and Universal on BD, which used the VC1 codec for video. I remember there was talking some years ago that VC1 was inferior to AVC, that VC1 uses to soften picture and was only efficient on low data rates (as with HD-DVD, many early Warner HD-DVD and BD shared the same encode) but AVC renders more picture quality and that’s why VC1 was almost abandoned. Your opinion on this subject?” – from forums.stevehoffman.tv

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