[mythtv-users] Watch myth on cell phones

[Marco Nelissen]

>> H.263 and H.264 are two different encoding schemes, but both are part of
>> the mpeg-4 spec (ISO/IEC 14496). H.263 is pretty much "standard" mpeg-4,
>> whereas H.264 is considered "advanced".
>> .3gp files are basically the same as .mp4 files. In general these
>> contain video in H.263 format and audio as AAC or AMR. You could presumably
>> put audio and video in another format in there, but I'm not sure it would
>> officially still be considered a valid .3gp file in that case (though
>> that wouldn't necessarily mean that no player would be able to play it).
>
>I was under the impression .3gp was H.264?

Might be both. H.264 has been accepted by the 3GPP standards body, but I
don't know if that's supposed to use the same .3GP container format or not.
I expect it does though. Still, H.263 is a little more widely supported
(since it's plain old mpeg-4), which could be a reason to stick with H.263
for your transcoding needs for now.