01-07-2003, 08:01 AM
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Originally posted by Mutt
sounds like overkill to me. dialup streaming isn't worth it for the viewer, i don't think any surfers on dialup want to watch streams. That's why MPEGs are still the most popular movie format amongst surfers. They will take the time to download them rather than watch a shitty dialup stream.
i'd do a WMV version for broadband streaming, only 300kbps because anything faster and it won't work cuz most cable providers can't do consistent 500 or 700kbps throughput. I've tried watching 500kbps, i usually give up.
Do a 30fps mpeg or DivX for people to download, the good thing about mpegs is that if somebody has a fast connection they'll start playing in Media Player. Not sure how big the screen size should be on the mpegs, not too big because the files will be too big. Porn surfers aren't that hard to please.
i think WMV files are great, good enough for me.
Take a look at OxCash and NastyDollars sites, WMV and MPEG.
That's what I would do.
Why even bother with QT?
How long does it take to encode a 15 minute movie into a WMV or MPEG file? And once I have it in MPEG can i just use some software to convert it to other formats? Please don't tell me that I would have to re-encode from the source file for every format, that would be hell.
I know dick about video encoding but I need to know it since i think i'll be licensing some video soon. What format is a video imported in from a miniDV tape or i guess any format, DVD/VHS?
uncompressed avi? or can i go direct from the miniDV into WMV bypassing one step?
i think i might outsource this, seems like boring time consuming work, must be lots of goofballs on those movie forum sites who would do it for cheap.
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If you want to outsource it let me know as i have lots of cpu cycles im wasting on distributed.net RC72 cracking  |
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