Daniel Low
Forum Replies Created
-
IMHO the future (of web delivery) will be with progressive type delivery (whether that be by HTTP or Bittorrent or whatever). RTSP is still, after all this time and all this bandwidth, flaky and expensive and difficult.
At the end of the day, I want to control the quality of the experience I’ve created, not be dictated to by the bandwidth of the connection or other factors getting in the way along the line.
Although he price of FSS has dropped drastically recently the only people bothering with it are those concerned with DRM, even though it’s easily overcome by those that can be bothered.
As for Windows streaming, well I can’t remember the last time I saw any.
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
The BGCOLOR tag maybe?
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
Indeed, BluRay can be much better than DVD, if encoded correctly you wouldn’t notice any drop in quality from your original. However authoring a BluRay disc is no where near as easy or cheap as authoring a DVD.
In addition not as many people own BluRay players as they do DVD players.
I know many people how can’t tell the difference between a well authored DVD and a mediocre BluRay when viewed on a typical domestic HD flatscreen.
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
If it’s going out on DVD then it needs to be MPEG-2 in order to play on standard DVD players.
A dedicated encoding application like Squeeze or even better, Episode from Telestream should be able to produce great looking output.
Sadly it won’t look as good as the original whatever you do, as you’ll being going from HD to SD.
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
Mac or PC?
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
And this will explain with 320×240 is half of 720×480:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7imny_square-vs-nonsquare-pixels-producin_tech
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
Flash video works best at certain frame sizes. It’s best therefore to stick to defined aspect ratios and frame sizes equally divisible by 8 or 16 on both axis.
You will almost certainly get better results using a dedicated encoding application. I’d recommend Episode from Telestream but there are other on both platforms ranging from free to very expensive that can probably do a better job than AE.
Ultimately – I’d reduce the frame size as I’m sure your client will see less of the problems. You can’t compromise too much without messing everything up, something has to give and in your case it’s playback performance.
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
Rick,
I am fully aware of the different methods of video delivery and that Flash is traditionally served as a progressive download.
If you read the post properly you’d see that this is not about quality but about being able to step through the video with accuracy.
With that in mind I stand by my statement. Flash is a ‘delivery’ format not a ‘client approval’ type format such as Quicktime (and certainly NOT like WMV, ever tried stepping through a WMV using just the keyboard, as you can with QT?)
When you say “And with the new codecs in CS4 I finally can say the video looks as good or better than quicktime or wmv of similar file sizes” just shows how little you know about digital video.
There are no ‘new codecs’ in CS4. Flash video uses either the ancient Sorenson Spark Codec, or the On2 VP6 codec or H.264 (Which BTW is a standard not a codec), and I’d be very surprised if you could tell me the quality differences between the various H.264 codec vendors. Also CS4 is a suite of products and Quicktime is a host to many many different codecs.
Please don’t say I’m only ‘half correct’ when you’ve got it almost completely wrong.
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
that’s a huge frame size for the given datarate and also neither 4:3 or 16:9? Are you using AE to do your encoding? It’s ok for casual stuff but nowhere near good enough for client ready work.
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free! -
Ok, fair enough.
Please then give a complete breakdown of your encoding settings:
Frame size
Keyframe rate
Audio data rate
EtcIf this problem happens in the first 10 seconds this can be the result of hiccups as the movie has finished progressively downloading. Ask them to visit a number of other sites and see what they experience. eg.hulu.com, youtube, vimeo etc
__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying ‘thanks’ is free!