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If you’ve come across the phrase , you’re probably wondering: Is Xvid still relevant? Is it better than modern codecs like H.265 or AV1?
2024 is the year we must let go of nostalgia as a technical argument. Xvid will never be better than HEVC or AV1 for streaming, archiving, or everyday viewing. But it remains an irreplaceable tool for specific edge cases where backward compatibility, error resilience, and low decoding overhead are paramount.
Xvid is ancient, which means it is simple . On a modern 16-core CPU, encoding Xvid is laughably fast. You can rip a DVD to Xvid in under 10 minutes.