Charles Simonson
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I just use the standard WinMediaEncoder and it works fine with F4M. Haven’t tried the F4M with IOData compatibility in a while though.
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I doubt there is any way to encode a DivX AVI with Compressor, but a DivX MOV may be possible.
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When I encode for iPod, I encode to two sizes: MPEG-4 Part 2 Main Profile at sizes up to 368×208 and 800kbps; MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC, H264) Baseline Profile at up to 640×360 and 1400kbps. MPEG-4 Part 2 only requires QT6, while QT7 is required for H264. Now, it is possible for someone to have iTunes installed on their PC and not have QT7 as well, although they would have had to not updated their iTunes in quite a while. iTunes 7 requires QT7 and most later versions of 6 required QT7. But it sounds like the machine you were trying to view the encodes on was a QT6-only machine, as it could decode the audio (likely AAC which was compatible with QT6 as well). If you installed QT7 or if your client has updated their iTunes, then they should be able to view your encodes as is.
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Yes, MPEG-1 is the way to go. Either that or an RGB AVI, but I would still recommend MPEG-1.
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As long as you enable progressive downloading with QT and have a fast enough server to feed the video, then you should be good. After a few seconds of waiting (~10 – 15), the clip should start playing and with any luck the user will never recognize that the video is really that big of a download. For reference, take a look at Apple’s trailers site, the 480p trailers average about 40MB for a 2 min 30 sec clip. But then again I wouldn’t recommend you encode to a frame size larger 480×270 for most web video, especially demo reels for the web.
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Check here for more detailed help with F4M products:
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Yeah, that can be a pain to find on their site. Guess I should have stated DVD player instead of just STB. “jvc prohd dvd player” on google would have yielded this as the first result.
https://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101546&feature_id=01
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If you have a Decklink or Kona card, then you may be in luck as they support DPX to SDI I believe. Play the DPX out via SDI and either record it and then capture or loop from the deck to another station that can record the signal. Another option may be to open the DPX images in QT as a sequence and then try to export that an umcompressed QT movie. It has been a while since I last worked with DPX so I am a little rusty. Hopefully that will help.
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For our kiosk and tradeshow purposes we use a JVC ProHD STB. You can feed it direct HDV, HD MPEG-2, and HD WMV-9 streams and it can play it back via its Component or DVI connections. It usually runs around $350 and is ideal if you just want run a loop of encoded content. It supports material from either network, DVD-R, or USB Flash drives. If you had one of these boxes, you wouldn’t have to worry about re-encoding and would be able to give the display an HD signal.
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DR is probably your best bet. There is also Telestream Episode Workgroup (formally Popwire Compression Engine) which will do this via very efficient node encoding.