Okay, so lots of good discussion about formats. Some backstory first. When Apple came out with Quicktime 7, I was annoyed because it seemed that with the 3ivx codec, they took away the ability to encode it with MPEG4 audio and replaced it AAC. Now many vloggers I know (I'll use Steve for example) held out and stayed with Quicktime 6. Remember, Apple sorta goofed on the first 7.0 release and some compatibility issues plagued us until they came out with 7.01.
Good news is that all the videos I made with 3ivx (mpeg/aac) were automatically ipod video-ready. That was the SWEETEST accident ever! So, yay for 3ivx. So on to h.264... no shortage of conversation there--- many folks decided that 3ivx was *good enough* and stuck with it, seeing only minor differences in quality, and improved encoding/processing time. H264 works as well, but takes forever to encode. Fast forward to today. I've got the first of two HD cameras in my arsenal and I couldn't (in the time I had to work with it) get 3ivx to give me the quality I was looking for. Also, I wasn't interested in waiting for H264 video to encode. We had this quicktime-to-ipod format which had its voodoo extension show up when the ipod video was announced. What I discovered in my tests: Outputting to the M4V was uber fast and low file size. By A LOT. Since so much traffic comes from iTunes (and they feature my videoblog from time to time) I said to hell with it and made those videos m4v's. When I had more time to encode when I got back from travelling, I found that I *could* get 3ivx to maintain a reasonable quality for the footage I shot in HD, although the file sizes were a bit awkward (my last video is 6 minutes, 480x272, HIGH with auto bitrate = 122 MB. ouchie) H264 didn't give me much better results or quality. So, in short, publishing to M4V was a shortcut that sorta worked, minus the brain fart I had with editing the wrong server's MIME type. It was fast, had good quality and I might revisit it sooner, but in all actuality, I'll prolly do as much as I can to mimic those settings in 3ivx to kick out .MOV files for all general podcast applications. Cheers, Eric http://ericrice.com Coming soon: the Epsilon Construct --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How absolutely embarrassing. All of that trouble I was having with MIME types > (m4v thread) > was a PEBKAC issue (problem exists between keyboard and chair). > > I spent all this time trying to edit the MIME types on backstaging.com to no > avail-- the videos > would STILL not work. I suppose that's because the video files don't live > there, they live on a > hosted blog server that I don't have access to....(duhhh)..... so I was > editing something > completely unrelated. > > So basically, it's like if you got a headache and I gave your neighbor some > aspirin. > > Thanks everyone for the help. :-) > > ER > http://ericrice.com > coming soon: the epsilon construct > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
