From: Alexander Stockwell (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 15:59:10 PST
ceapix,
while those codec packs and alternatives do a great job playing various formats for the user who needs to view uncommon formats, I think compatibility is the most important issue to be concerned with if you are going to make video content available on the internet for a broad audience (and the internet is pretty broad, to say the least). I doubt that viewers will be willing to download a huge codec pack in order to view a website, more likely they will just skip over it. I know I've come across sites saying I needed plugins that took forever to download and often I would just skip the download. One must find the most compatible compression codec/presentation that also maintains an acceptable level of image quality and size.
Maļa, while i-h264 may be the best looking, you may alienate most windows users who have not downloaded the new player, and seeing as how most of the world is comprised of windows users you may lose a significant portion of your audience. perhaps an alternate download if you have the space or recompressing in a more compatible codec would help, but then again I think quicktime 7 is catching on with windows users too, so something to consider. for anyone interested in putting video content on the internet, here are two articles that are nice reads:
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/04/42/index4a.html
(page 3 summarizes the most popular codecs)
how to get your movie online:
http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/movieonline/
ceapix wrote:
>Hello Frameworkers:
>For PC use..
>Google EDSKE CODEC MIRROR (those 3 words)
>get the 12M Klite codec pack and the latest real alternative and quicktime alternative
>These will handle a great range of stuff..
>Links to the excellent VLC player (main site has OSX& LINUX version too)
>
>QVPRO255 or 256 can also be sought out for low-end machines: (p130-p300) plays most
>everything in DOS, but costs a few bucks
>
>IF you have better than a P300 and you still cant play a compressed format,
>you have too much junk running in the background - whether XP, 2K or W98/95
>
>Now if there was something that played DIVX and the more compressed web formats etc for mac OS9
>
>Best regards,
>
>======= At 2005-12-12, 18:31:03 you wrote: =======
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>>Hi Maia,
>>
>>if this is of help,
>>I 'm using Windows XP Pro and am able to view the clips...
>>
>>Bridget
>>Olympia WA
>>
>>
>>
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>>>From: Pablo Marin <email suppressed>
>>>Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
>>>To: email suppressed
>>>Subject: Re: Problems with website
>>>Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:54:17 -0800
>>>
>>>Maia,
>>>
>>>your site is pretty nice. can“t wait to see some clips
>>>(try to watch some in windows and didn“t run).
>>>
>>>by the way, nice postcard!
>>>
>>>pablo marin
>>>buenos aires.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--- Maia Cybelle Carpenter
>>><email suppressed> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks for responding. I was afraid that my
>>>>compression wouldn't work on
>>>>windows machines...It was the one that looked the
>>>>best with my hand
>>>>processed films! I must have tried a bazillion
>>>>different compressions.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone have a suggestion? I used the newish
>>>>I-H264 800 Kbps
>>>>streaming.mov Something comparable that will work on
>>>>Windows machines?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.mccarpenter.net
>>>>
>>>>- Maļa Cybelle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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