Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Thanks for the input...btw, your name comes up often when I ask people who is a guru on techie issues.

Several people have told me to stick with .mp4:



I have nothing against .mov - when I was only offering progressive downloads, I used .mov most of the time (since I am a Mac-head myself). In fact, I export all of my videos as self-contained Quicktime (.mov) movies, for import into Compressor for encoding, and also for archival purposes for when the next new big thing comes along (which is about every 2-4 years these days).

There was some other big reason why I opted awhile back to go with .mp4, but I can't recall what it is at the moment (been up working all night so I'm kind of fuzzy around the edges right now).

Here are a few examples of what I have come up with so far:

http://beta.asiandivagirls.com

Don't worry too much about the quality of the videos - these samples were deliberately chosen because one is lowlight (underexposed), and the other has blown out backlighting (overexposed), plus there are lots of transitions, to test how well the video comes back together after being disrupted by transitions (which cause the video encoder to have to re-draw every pixel in every single frame over the transition).

If I can come up with a decent set of codecs for adaptive bitrate streaming on both PC's and the most popular mobile devices with that type of content, then content that was shot under better conditions should look pristine (or at least pretty damn good).

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