Best codec for video conversion?

[Gauravs90]

Pls tell me best codec for video conversion you know which have high compression ratio?

Like h264 have high compression ratio.

Which is the best codec for video conversion.

[prashanthgowda]

If you want to play the videos on the pc ,use xvid.If you to play them on a home theater,use divx(xvid is not supported by many systems).For movies a bitrate of 900-1000 kbits/sec is enough for good quality at high compression.

Also,if you have good processing power and a lot of time go for 2-pass encoding.

[[A]bu]

MPEG4 is also not so bad.