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Originally Posted by Katie Boundary
I always disable b-frames in my AVI files, partly because getting AVI to support b-frames requires an ugly hack, and partly due to just hating bidirectional encoding as a matter of principle.
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It doesn't "require" a hack. I think that's strictly a Video For Windows limitation, where it's always one frame in and one frame out. The hack is "packed bitstream", which you should be able to disable.
Personally I've never had a problem with hardware player compatibility, with or without a packed bitstream.
Bidirectional encoding improves compression efficiency a great deal, although admittedly XVid's B-frames aren't the highest quality. You'd be crazy to disable them for x264 encoding. Almost as crazy as still using Xvid.