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March 28, 2003
MPEG4 and QuickTime streaming
I spent the last couple of days turning two video tapes of the last Litmus Green show EVER into mpeg4 formated files suitable for streaming over the internet using Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server. It was interesting (if tedious) to play with the different encodings to get something that would not only stream well over shitty modem connections but look decent and sound decent as well. The tedious part came from the fact that I was encoding 10-12 gigabytes of data down to 60+ megabytes. It was not the fastest process in the world.
At first I was afraid that if I cut the encoding down too much that the quality would suck so bad that no one would bother watching the video's at all. But that was a mistake. It turns out that using mpeg4 video as well as AAC audio I could strip the bit rates down to almost nothing and still have the movies not suck. I am quite impressed by that. I still need to get feed back from other people on just how well it is working for them, but in my tests it works great. Of course, those are famous last words. Until I hear that things are going as well for other people I can't be sure.
Posted by ed at March 28, 2003 9:06 PM
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I'm getting that error thingy I showed you before. It worked with the last version but not this one.
Posted by: Lare at March 31, 2003 8:04 PM