Hi Carolyn and welcome, Film Ideas does have low res streams on its website that are painful to watch in full screen. We serve a broad constituency, many of whom share limited bandwidth with their colleagues. A high res file would buffer and make reviewing a program difficult. However, should you purchase a program from Film Ideas with digital rights (hosted by you or us) we would encode the file to your specs.
Hope that helps, Bob Film Ideas, Inc. 308 North Wolf Road Wheeling, IL 60090 Phone: (847) 419-0255 Fax: (847) 419-8933 Email: [email protected] Web: www.filmideas.com www.FIChannels.com On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > From: Carolyn S Faber <[email protected]> > Date: November 22, 2011 9:55:28 AM CST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Streaming media vendor list > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > Hello, > > I'm relatively new to this list (been lurking for a couple months) and have > have found the discussions on streaming media really useful. I was wondering > if some of you would care to comment on the quality of the streamed images. > Our library is testing out some of the sites mentioned and I found the > low-res streams to be watchable - especially for short-form content on a > small device (phone, ipod etc.) - but the full-screen views I've tried so > far are uniformly terrible. We don't have a bandwidth problem here, the > stream itself is steady, so I'm inclined to think it's on the vendor side. > The image is consistently blurry/fuzzy/cloudy, full of compression artifacts. > I've tried looking at different types of content from different vendors and > while there are slight variances there isn't one that I would watch in > full-screen mode. But that's how I would want to watch it. Is it just me? > How are people viewing streaming media and what do you or your users think > about the quality of the image(s)? > > My apologies if this is something that has been discussed recently. > > Cheers, > Carolyn > > -- > Carolyn Faber > Film and Media Technician > Flaxman Library > School of the Art Institute of Chicago > 37 S. Wabash > Chicago, Il 60603 > 312-629-1341 > 16mm Film Study Collection >
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