Morning Martin,
Thanks for that, any testing with the VideoiPod to verify it can
actually play H.264?
Yes it can be an issue the compression time although I have found for
small files H.264 behaves quite strange it says 14 minutes or more,
but I come back after a few minutes ( I think??) and it is done. An
area I will have to investigate a bit more. Although at moment it is
only a minimal amount of files which are being done by me and I
usually set them to compress at end of day. My work flow is not being
hindered as yet, although when doing large files have noticed extreme
amount of time to compress. As mentioned previously one can encode at
smaller window sizes and allow to be extended with .qtl file. I am
not sure if large files also are taking estimated time as I do not
hang around to find out must check logs I suppose.
Cheers!
`Rob...
On 09/11/2005, at 10:48 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
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...
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