Ben Waggoner
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Cleaner 5 is ancient at this point. Are you on Mac or Windows?
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The suckier you’re willing to make it, the more you can put it on. VCD is one minute of video per minute of audio capacity for the disc. Of course, modern codecs are much better. A good WMV9 or H.264 can likely do a decent 320×240 of four hours or so.
DVD-ROM is much, much larger, of course.
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If you’re a Microsoft shop (suggested by your use of ASP), I’d look at doing this with Windows Media. It also has a very good DRM system (although you have to use a limited set of features if you need Mac playback).
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Sorenson Squeeze and Compression Master will both do this.
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Keyframes take up more relative space, but if you have a fixed bitrate, what happens is that the keyframes get more bits and the delta frames get fewer. So the file size will be the same, but you’ll get lower compression efficiency.
As to why it’s getting LARGER, not sure. Is it a significant amount? Are you using 2-pass encoding (you should be as long as you’re not doing real-time streaming via RTSP).
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For an enhanced CD, I’d do square pixel MPEG-1 – that’ll play in anything without any software install.
As for making good web video, there’s a LOT to it – picking a format is a pretty minor part of the process.
I wrote a book on this very topic, linked below in my .sig…
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This generally shouldn’t be required. What’s your source format and codec?
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Charles,
Are you comparing WMV9-MP or -AP to H.264? I think the Compression Master H.264 beats WMV9-MP at everything below 1 Mbps I’ve tested. I imagine that a mature WMV9-AP would also do the trick, but we don’t have anything like that readily available.
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🙂
Another thing that’s currently driving me crazy is that QuickTime 7 doesn’t decode Motion-JPEG with the correct RGB colors, so RGB encoding tools yield too dim video.
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I agree Compression Master does well in this area, but normally so does ProCoder. What are your source and output codecs?
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