Web video is just a pool of blood. Unlike photography, where any reasonably intelligent instance of Homo sapiens can figure out how to get something out of the camera and onto most screens in reasonably-good-looking form, you have to be a real rocket scientist to produce video that looks good and Just Works on any reasonable proportion of screens. The thing that maddens me is that both my K-5 and my S-100 take video that looks brilliant when it's in the video program, like iMovie or Final Cut, but I totally can't find a way to export it that doesn't end up looking like dogshit at any tolerable size.
Not that I'm bitter. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > > [email protected] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
