[Harold Ek]

Again, thanks to all who have contributed!

At this point I will go to the flv format our web managers have suggested ( I seem to have solved the the flv encoding problem). Fortunately legacy files are not a problem for our application. Most files are replaced each month, with none having longer than 1 yr life. Therefor a subsequent change in encoding is not a big problem.

Today I was experimenting with various Squeeze 6 encoding presets for Flash. I was viewing them on our PC using the Adobe Media Player.

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

I was very surprised at the dramatic improvement in quality that moving from 1 pass cbr to 2 pass vbr made. With the 2 pass I was able to reduce at least 2 steps in data rate with about equivalent visual quality. Am I fooling myself somehow?

[Harold Ek]

It seems that my request expanded beyond what I expected.
But I would like to thank all who have contributed to my education and some confusion.

My comment about “Just involve changing some links” demonstrates my lack of understanding of how involved the process was, not that our web designer suggested or attempted it.

I am a volunteer who has been primarily involved in shooting and editing informational videos for a small Village. We started a few years back to stream these videos to cover a larger portion of our clients. At that point we were encoding them to wmv but recently decided to attempt to improve our quality by changing format to mp4. We had been encoding at 2 different data rates to cover both dial-up and broadband clients. I would judge that our viewers are mostly not highly computer savvy, and few if any businesses.

Just today I attempted to encode to flv by modifying 2 presets in Squeeze 6. That generates a couple of additional questions.

1. Do you think we should abandon our efforts to accommodate any low bandwidth clients?
2. Can you refer me to a good source to explain all the options on the Flash presets?

Thanks again to all!

[Harold Ek]

Thanks Chris!
I think you have put your finger exactly on the problem.
Somehow I hate to, but I guess I’ll take the flv path.

We had been using wmv files but thought we could improve our quality by going to mp4. But we’re having difficulties during what I thought would be a simple mater of changing the links.

[Harold Ek]

It sounds like I have a similar problem. Please see my post “Library Items Missing” on the forum.

Did you ever get any resolution of your problem?