On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Derby Chang wrote: > > This will probably be old news to some. TIL, HTML5 video embedding sounds > promising, but ain't here yet. I know I'm a n00b at this, but does it really > need to be this hard? Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted. > > * Chrome works fine, even with just the basic video tag. Chrome also seems to > stream much better than IE or FF, which are really stuttery to play. I have > the preload option on. > * IE worked eventually after adding a few meta cryptic tags and re-encoding > in H.264. Unfortunately, my slideshow maker (ProShow Producer) squirts out > video in xvid codec. So I had to re-encode it. > * Firefox was disappointing. No H.264 support out of the box; had to install > the WMP plugin to get it to work. There seems to be a workaround to double > encode in OGG which I'd do that if I had the space. > * Can't test Safari or Opera, so I hope this works. > > Does anyone know how to tweak the 'control' option to have full-screen > available on IE and Firefox? Only seems to be available for Chrome. Its a > 1080 file, so it's a shame it can't be viewed that way. > > On a side note, I thought I'd kill two tech birds with one stone. Adorama > gave me 20GB with Pogoplug for free, for life. I tried uploading the video > file to save room on my personal sitespace. But darn it crawls along with > uploading, and not that great downloading either. Will do further > investigations. > > Anyhoo, here is my first '5 vid > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/01/intimate_show/index.html > > > > Oh, happy new year, everyone. Hope you stayed out of trouble. > > > --
Disclaimer: what I know about computer-based video could be written in large print on the back of a standard-size postage stamp. Using Safari, the link worked fine. But verrrry slow! After the first 13 sec it paused to buffer additional data. And paused. And paused. So I left it to play with itself, went on to other things. (I just ran a speed test, it shows me currently at 6.30 Mbps Download speed.) When I next looked at that window, 5-10 minutes later, about 2 minutes worth had been buffered, so I restarted the video. So, technically speaking, it seems to work, but slowly. As to the content: I like the images. I don't care for the show. a) I find the "dissolve" effect distracting and, after the 2nd or 3rd transition, I find the dissolve quite irritating. b) a 20 second dissolve seems way excessive! c) And a screen time for a given image of 20-30 seconds is excessive. d) but then you balance that with a series of 3-4 images with a screen time of 1 second or less? My general problem with this sort of video, reflected in my comments above, is that I have zero control over the image flow. If I have the option to see a slide-show of your images (presented via an interface where I can click RightArrow and move ahead as fast or slowly as I like, according to which images I want to study carefully or skip by quickly) I would enjoy viewing your shots. But I doubt if I could endure more than a minute or two of a video presentation of the same images. I have done many many slide shows and PowerPoint presentations, and there were times when I had to automate the flow of the presentation. The only small successes I had required extensive pre-testing with live audiences so that I could use audience feedback to gauge appropriate dwell times and transition times for different portions of the show. IIRC, in PowerPoint there is a Record feature; you can put a presentation in front of someone, let them click their way through, and you'll capture the timings that feel right to that person. Do that 15-20 times and you can begin to get a better sense of what might work for a general audience viewing the presentation as a movie. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
