Re: [videoblogging] Re: When video services scale up your videos dimensions

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
Primary for me, is the authors intent... despite that prob not being an overwhelming concern, I pref to adhere to it.  Secondary is the quality... since most videos scale up with minimum distortion.  I also figure that as aggregator services, their is enough tearing a part of content/context and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: When video services scale up your videos dimensions

2006-02-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Not so easy... there's a lot of different formats that all treat this differently. Also, that data is not exposed to the browser, it is handled by the plugin. -Josh On 2/27/06, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would think the movie information including the size is in the > header of the fil

Re: [videoblogging] Re: When video services scale up your videos dimensions

2006-02-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Quesiton: Is this issue about preserving an artist's intentions or is it about quality of video when rescaled (i.e. viewing at original size is perceived as "best" quality) -Josh On 2/27/06, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. At the very least an aggregator should default to the > orig

Re: [videoblogging] Re: When video services scale up your videos dimensions

2006-02-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Also, another note... there seems to be some confusion here when talking about aggregators... Michael's original message was referring to FireAnt.tv, which is our website. He was not referring to FireAnt the desktop-based aggregator, which gives the user much more control over the viewing size of t

Re: [videoblogging] Re: When video services scale up your videos dimensions

2006-02-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Just a note, scaling does not mean that the aspect ratio changes. Widescreen is still widescreen. -Josh On 2/27/06, David Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I vote for no scaling. > > If I wanted a larger video, I would have made a larger video to begin > with. > > David > http://www.taoofdavid