{"id":58,"date":"2008-08-23T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-08-23T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:24:22","slug":"video-tutorial-dv-kitchen-the-best-tool-to-encode-h264-web-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/video-tutorial-dv-kitchen-the-best-tool-to-encode-h264-web-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Tutorial: DV Kitchen &#8211; The Best Tool To Encode H.264 Web Videos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a quality freak.  I&#8217;m constantly testing tools side by side, trying to determine what produces the highest quality web video (as in, what gives you the best looking video on the web, with the lowest investment of time and money).<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of August 2008, a new product called <strong>DV Kitchen<\/strong> was released.  DV Kitchen takes your video and encodes it using the high-definition h.264 codec for the web.  That&#8217;s nothing new&#8230;there are many products that do this.  But what makes DV Kitchen unique, among other things, is that they use their own home-grown version of the h.264 codec.<\/p>\n<p>The result (or at least the claim), is that with DV Kitchen and their special h.264 codec, you get the best quality web video possible at the lowest possible file sizes (as compared to competing products).<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to test DV Kitchen out&#8230;in a head-to-head competition&#8230;against other leading tools that produce h.264 video for the web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened?  What were the results?  Is DV Kitchen superior, equal or just another ho-hum tool?<\/strong> Well, I made a video of the competition.   Click the image below to watch it (if you&#8217;re a Firefox user, you&#8217;ll need to be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 3.0 or above<\/a> to watch this video):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lyteframe\" rev=\"width: 732px; height: 546px; scrolling: no;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/media\/blog_dv_kitchen.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webvideouniversity.com\/playvideo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to check out DV Kitchen for yourself (which I strongly recommend), you can <a href=\"http:\/\/dvcreators.net\/dv-kitchen\/\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a> to find out more and even download a free trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a quality freak. I&#8217;m constantly testing tools side by side, trying to determine what produces the highest quality web video (as in, what gives you the best looking video on the web, with the lowest investment of time and money). At the beginning of August 2008, a new product called DV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,38,47,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}