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compressor help, thanks!!
In compressor, what is the difference between web download and web streaming???
Also, what are the advantages of using mpeg4 over h264 and vice versa. they look similar, and the file sizes are the same, using the same settings???
-ben
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Streaming utilizes smaller data packets, which is good for getting things started fast and playing smoothly, but bad if you’re trying to get the whole bundle onto your hard drive ASAP.
H.264 is a variant of MPEG-4 into which Apple has poured lots of dough. Its supposed to be both more efficient and less lossy, which is a good combination. If you can’t see a difference neither will most others.
David Roth Weiss
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so, if you had to choose a format, to encode lots of videos too, that will be posted on websites, which would you go with, h264 or mpeg4?
bare in mind, people using windows explorer, windows, etc, will be viewing them as well as people on macs
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[ben oliver] “so, if you had to choose a format, to encode lots of videos too, that will be posted on websites, which would you go with, h264 or mpeg4?
bare in mind, people using windows explorer, windows, etc, will be viewing them as well as people on macs”
Ben,
This is why I use Flash exclusively. However, if I had to choose between MPEG4 and h.264 I’d probably choose h.264, as its now been adopted by Adobe and is playable in its Flash Player.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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yeah, i have no say in what people can use. these are for posting on a major universities class website, certain restraints, etc, so flash is definaty out f the question.
h264 will work in windows media player?
-b
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hi ben
afaik h.264 did not start off as a mac or apple thing. It has been used by all sorts of people and i believe the mpeg4 used in bluray video files is also h264…but whether it will play on your client’s pc really depends on the codecs they have on their computer. Some of my clients cannot even play a basic mpeg-2. Most of these new, efficient codecs require the user to download something, flash, quicktime, wmv, real… but I would agree with David, go with flash, most people have it, erm, flash h264!
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it would be great if i could use flash…however
its for a course website, so, basically, at the university i work for, there is a toolkit where they can upload “any” kind of file, be it a graphic, mp3, etc, as long as it is under 100mb. We get minidv tapes handed to us, and told, make it work on the class website. the students log into there class site, and see a “link” to a file, lets say, gwashington.mov they then click it, and have it stream in safari, lets say, or it downloads to there machine. this isn’t a “designed” website, its really plugin play, i guess?
some of these classes have over 800 students. so, i do my best to make the file as universal as possible. it’s basically a “file download” kind of deal. From what i figure, mpeg’s can play in Windows Media Player, and quicktime, so, i think thats what it is worth doing?
make sense?
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hi
mpeg1 is the most universal, but poor quality. Anything better requires some codec which some systems might or might not have…
are most pc or mac users?
if mac, id go h264 quicktime and if pc id go wmv
i prefer wmv look-wise, when we have done both formats for an end user, the wmv looks a bit better – particularly colour-wise.cheers
mark.
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