Best movie encoder codec

I'm looking for a good codec to use when re-encoding movies to save on hard disk space.

DIVX is filled with adware and I'm sure there are better ones out there to be used.

I've heard both good and bad things about h.264 and was wondering what is the best one to use and where should I get it from to keep the bloatware off my computer.

Thanks

Xvid or H.264. They can both be great if you know how to use them.

I used to use divx 3.11 alpha myself (not the same thing as DIVX), but mostly because it encoded really really fast compared to h.264 or xvid.. not that great a codec otherwise, seeing as it's ancient.

You can find any codec with google, x264 is a h.264 codec you could look for, altho I dunno if there are any better ones.

uncompressed is the way to go if you can't handle the purity gtfo

>>3
Do you even know what 'uncompressed' means?
Yay for 1 minute = 7 Gig

>>3
lol

>>4
no, 1 minute = just under a gig

real men have the hard drive space and then some. 

>>4
>>6
depends on resolution so you're both wrong and right at the same time.

>>7
your logic is retarded ompress is better

>>6 OVER 300 MINUTES OF AUDIO FOR JUST $85 US WOW! ENJOY THAT NEW 300GB HARD DISK! THAT IS OVER 5 HOURS OF SONGS THAT YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN FOR $60 ON CDS! YOU ARE A PIRATE AND PIRATES ARE FREE AND CHEAP!

>>9
video, dumbass. do you know what it is? and gtfo.