Yeah, we've trialed H.264 but the extremely long compression times and incompatibility issues with earlier versions of Quicktime on campus in particular have meant we've decided to stick with plain MPEG-4 for the time being.
When you're wanting to compress dozens of lecture recordings every day in dozens of different formats, time is of the essence so we tend to go for quantity rather than quality. Once QT 7 has bedded down a bit more and we've increased the number of dual Xserve G5 Compression servers in our Mac rack, we'll reassess the situation. -Mart > From: Rob Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:37:48 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Subject: Re: WAMUG Oct & Nov Meeting Videos and podcast change > > > On 09/11/2005, at 9:25 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: > >> Martin, I had downloaded the smaller file, but its quite blurry on >> the ipod. The 256k one is quite acceptable. Oh the joy of being >> able to watch Matt and Daniel perform on an ipod! cheers, Susan. >> On 09/11/2005, at 7:17 AM, Martin Hill wrote: > > Try H.264 codec and see if that helps. I have had great success with > this encoding of files for very small file sizes. Only problem I have > encountered is no QT 7 for windows until just recently. Still a bit > dodgy but works and the fullscreen issue of QT7 if not pro, but VLC > does offer an alternative as does mplayer. Also H.264 can be extended > from original file size whilst watching without loss of quality as an > older Mpeg4 codec goes pixelated. > > Quicktime Media Link has improved dramatically with QT7 and use of H. > 264, put file somewhere and tell page where it hides and .qtl which > is an xml offering all sorts of control over files downloads and > plays relative Quicktime file. > > VideoiPod is supposed to support H.264, so would be interested in > findings? > > Cheers! > `Rob... > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > >
