You should probably contact me off list for any more.
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I have written applications that use the quicktime api and can batch
process anything quicktime reads to FLV, and I am thinking mencoder/
mplayer could be used to batch/automate the rips from dvd, I have
several scripts that can rip any title or combination of titles and
chapters.
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President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
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On Jun 9, 2006, at 4:29 AM, Dan Stein wrote:
Robert can I set up a time to talk to you about this. This is a big
thing
for my client and I want to win points by giving them the best advice.
The best thing for them would be to be able to pull these things
off the DVD
itself.
They are in the process of buying new Macs so we could get them the
horsepower they need if they don't have it yet.
Then the goal would be to have a really robust performance on any
browser
when they click on the trailer and have them be able to watch it
either
embedded in the web page or on their default player.
I assume since it is trailers that it does not matter if they end
up with it
on their computer.
Finally we are hosted at Tronics so it has to be seamless with IIS
6 if
possible.
I can pay you for your time and can make the call if you tell me
what is
best for you.
I will be happy to summarize back to the list whatever we work out.
on 6/8/06 22:45, Robert Garcia at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can download the trial, but it is pretty good at translating
anything, to anything else, and does not require quicktime, so can
also pull from dvd stuff, I believe. And it has a lot of presets and
functionality, that quicktime, just does not have.
One thing to remember, FLV encoding, is EXTREMELY slow, as slow, or
slower than H264. So you have to bring that into your equation.
When I am completely concerned about compatibility, I use FLV, but
when I am concerned more about time and effort, I use MP4, and I use
3IVX to encode, which has excellent quality, and in single pass mode,
if you know how to tweak the settings right, encodes VERY VERY fast.
If you are going to be doing a lot of encoding, you will need a FAST
computer dedicated to it, and FLV is slow, and requires a lot of
horsepower, 3ivx is lightning fast, and can be saved as a MOV file,
or MP4, which most people have the ability to watch. And there are
some tricks, to embedding on a web page, so that it will not default
to WMP, or Quicktime, but whatever the default player is on the
system for MP4.
As an example of quality, here is a presentation I did for a big
photographic trade show, the first is 3IVX, the latter h264, H264
looks better than FLV, 3IVX is comparable to FLV.
http://public.bighead.net/wppi2006/
I think I have some tests of the same sermons from a church, done in
FLV, 3ivx mp4, and Real, I will see if they are laying around
somewhere.
One more thought, some people really like the mp4 format, and you can
build an rss feed for it, and subscribe to videos in itunes as
podcasts.
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Dan Stein
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
Digital Software Solutions
799 Evergreen Circle
Telford PA 18969
Land: 215-799-0192
Cell: 610-256-2843
Fax 413-410-9682
FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000, MySQL, CWP
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"It is perfectly safe to stand nowhere."
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