On 17/10/01 at 9:26 pm, Lingo-L Digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oh im sorry i stand corrected well hey if you put a still in the editor its > a still a still can be a graphic image repeated,, its video that comes out > the other end after rendering pal or ntsc what ever avi qt rm mpg but im > not using anologue for some years now hmmm bought a walt disney video the > other day was that non video content
Well the quickest way I could say 'non flat color type content' was 'video'. Apologies for the confusion. BTW, I think Sorenson is just fine. Much of the codec/quality discussions are quite subjective and often laced with politics. I'm doing a largish project with Sorenson right now and I'm quite happy with the performance and quality. The point is that codec technologies are getting better all the time, and it's not easy to be sure that you are always using the 'best', even if it was the best last month. > the site was intersting thank you b:) i guess it depends on weather your > streaming or just looking for quality with good file sizes, i imagine your > not a mac fan the bit rate for thet est was a bit high and the reslution is > like high bandwidth (waits half an hour while it tries to stream from mega > server) small is beautiful On the contrary, I am a keen Mac user, but sometimes you have to admit the competition is delivering a better product, and right now, WMV has the best codec for web streaming. This will probably change within a couple of months. In any case, Quicktime is already closer to an implementation of MPEG4 than any other product on the market, so I'm gunning for that. Most people think that MPEG4 is just a video codec, and Microsoft has done much to perpetuate this misunderstanding by releasing proprietary video codecs called 'MPEG4'. In fact, MPEG4 is a more complex beast. it's based on the principle of 'elemental' compression. In other words, you should compress scrolling text in a different way than you compress talking heads. Spoken word should be compressed differently to rock music and so on. That way, you can have a decent stock ticker overlaid legibly on a newscaster talking head even in low bandwidth conditions. Of the 'big three' architectures, only Quicktime has existing and established mechanisms to do this today. This same design also allows alternate tracks to be used transparently in different contexts. > SMIL is perfect for presentations audio visual with supplying alternatives > ie text or audio descripters for access for all runs on real player and i > guess the irony of it is that real player was authored in flash [i think] SMIL also runs in Quicktime. SMIL is especially cool when you generate it dynamically according to cgi requests. You can make a SMIL editor in Director with the fileIO and Quicktime Xtras. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
