Dear David, You seemed to have missed MySpace.
All the best Mark www.myspace.com/pantagruelian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: David Tayler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 00:22 An: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] video ratings Time for the six month review and ratings for sites that host video, specially geared to the lute and its unique sound. Ratings involve sound, video quality, ease of use, statistics counters, and the abilty to "embed" the code in a web page, so you can make your own video pages, or use the video easily on blogs. In addition, especially important for longer lutes, widescreen options are considered. The winners: ** youtube: The 800 kilo gorilla. Attracts the most audience. Pros: none, except name recognition. Cons: this is older tech that was poor for music to begin with. The audio codecs have even gotten worse, and they were not great to start with. Buggy window aperture resizing--makes things look squished for no reason. Grainy video. The tech will probably be updated, but for now it is pretty soggy. The code can be embedded, but there are better options. ** google: same as above: easy to find; hard on the ears **** vimeo: This is the place to start. In addition to video and audio that is superior to youtube, vimeo offers 720p higher def (not true high def) which is a vast improvement. The integration into the flash streaming model is very good, giving to end user lots of viewing options. In addition, true widescreen with freely resizeable windows is available. This is a huge plus in designing websites. H264 codecs are supported, along with the usual ones. User interface is good on both ends. Finally, vimeo makes the entire file available for high definition viewing from your hard drive for the best possible viewing experience. (Use the VLC player intstead of quicktime) Here are some medium definition videos on Vimeo, you can compare it to youtube http://www.vimeo.com/690338 http://www.vimeo.com/691700 Cons: Although the embedding features are superb, you only get High definition from the website. Embedded video is standard definition. Nonetheless, the SD is very good, and you can link through to the site. HD embedded will arrive as an upgrade at some point. **** Stage6 Stage6 has the best quality, period. The downside is that if you upload a big file, playback can be slow. Embedding options do not work well. Nonetheless, if you record your audio separately, you can post it in CD quality, or very high bitrate MP3--either way, it will sound much better, and it will be in rock solid stereo instead of mono. Stage6 also allows you to download the file for home playback :). Lastly, Stage6 accepts "true" high def, but the viewer would have to download it, since streaming is not that reliable. Cons: High bandwidth, buggy uploads. Ifilm Ifilm has both good video and sound, but it does not embed widescreen properly. This was one of the best choices till vimeo upgraded their flash engines. Best of luck and happy video. dt To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
