Best compression for WEB

[Chris Blair]

Craig Seeman: If I hired an expert professional to do a job I wouldn’t then tell them that their methods are wrong. Your job as a professional is advise the client on what needs to be done to meet their needs. Clients certainly know their needs.

Well obviously we don’t tell them their methods are wrong, we explain all the benefits to using H264, including the ability to do nothing more than link to the H264 and their Flash player will play them. There’s still a ton of resistance from web designers. They’re comfortable with flv’s and often have an “if it’s not broke it doesn’t need fixing” mentality.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com

[Chris Blair]

Harold Ek: Is there any danger in making decisions based on the visual quality that way without actually uploading and viewing them on the web?

From our experience you need to upload them to a web server and test them in all the major browsers to see how they’ll play and look. The video will look different on virtually every desktop flash player and media player (that can play flv files).

It will also look different on an LCD monitor than it does on an older CRT one.

Different flash players can also have some impact on how videos look and perform…with commercially available players that have years of real-world use and coding improvements often working better than custom made browsers (unless the web designer has a lot of experience building flash players for websites). But this would typically impact things like load/startup times and frame rate and not the overall visual appearance.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com

[Craig Seeman]

[Chris Blair] “They’re comfortable with flv’s and often have an “if it’s not broke it doesn’t need fixing” mentality.
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But it’s already broke as far as iPhones (and iPads) are concerned and many other handsets. And the handset market is growing. That’s why I posted the Virgin America article. The responded quite specifically that it doesn’t work on iPhones and the “i” device market share is growing.