Dana, I hadn't seen that one before. We had originally ruled out dedicated players as the ones that we had found were more than we wanted to spend on it. This one may be worth looking into though.
Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________________ Jason Bondy Exhibit AV/IT Systems Oklahoma History Center 2401 N. Laird Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73105 405-522-0783 - Office 405-522-5402 - Fax www.okhistory.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Dana Hutchins Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:09 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] HD video in the galleries? Have you looked into the MedeaWiz DV76 HD Player? Sounds like it does what you need and it's $385. http://www.medeawiz.com/products/Dv76.htm Sold through Team Kingsley in St. Louis. http://www.teamkingsley.com/MedeaWiz.htm Please let me know if this does what you're looking for or if anyone else has experience with this product. I'm about to use their DV68 for the first time for a project now. I'm curious about the HD player. Thanks Dana Hutchins XhibitNet 541 Congress St. Portland, ME 04101 207.773.1101 ext.102 dana at xhibit.net www.xhibit.net On 11/7/08 5:51 PM, "Jason Bondy" <jbondy at okhistory.org> wrote: > Daniel, > > Thanks for your response. We have an 80GB hard drive in the computer. Many > of the video clips are 5-10 minutes long, except one that is 32 minutes. We > are planning more long documentary type films, so we need to be ready for > the larger files. > > We currently own a few of the Firefly digital video players for > standard-definition video, but their HD players are out of our budget at > this time, as are the Adtec devices. Also, we already have the computers > installed, so we were going to try to use those if we can. As far as > Blu-ray, we are concerned about wear and tear on it if the film is repeating > continuously for nine hours per day. A hard drive is much cheaper to > replace when it wears out. > > We are still learning about various HD formats and playback options. We > were using H.264 originally because we have a Flash program that plays the > files using QuickTime. We need a playback format and application that goes > straight to full screen as soon as the computer boots up. Do you know of any > good reference material that explains some of the formats more in depth? > > Thank you. I really appreciate your time and assistance! > > Jason > > _______________________________________________________ > Jason Bondy > Exhibit AV/IT Systems > Oklahoma History Center > 2401 N. Laird Ave. > Oklahoma City, OK 73105 > 405-522-0783 - Office > 405-522-5402 - Fax > www.okhistory.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Daniel M. Bartolini > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:02 PM > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] HD video in the galleries? > > Hi Jason- > > How much hard drive space do you have available on these machines and > how long are your videos? I ask because HD playback on computers is > significantly improved when you use codecs that create discrete frames > versus heavily compressed MPEG formats like H.264. For example running > your video out to something like DVCPro HD or the Animation preset > creates all independent frames of the movie. Your hard drive overhead is > enormous (possibly 2 Gb for every 3 minutes, depending on bit rate) but > the computer has to think far less about the process as there are no > i-frames going on. > > Alternatively, if you need really small file sizes, mess with the H.264 > bit rate. Start high at 1500kb/s and move down to around 900 or less > until you find something that allows you to maintain your full frame > rate. The lower you go of course the more you will see those motion > artifacts, but perhaps not jumpiness. > > The dirty sort-of-secret of that format is it's really processor > intensive and upgrading video cards won't matter a lot unless you > specifically buy something like the latest NVidia cards that have built > in hardware rendering support of H.264 and other MPEG codecs, or if > you're willing to use a program like Max/Jitter (or comparable VJ > system), or environment like openFrameworks to display your video in > OpenGL so all work is done on the video card. > > Finally, have you considered standalone HD players, like those from > Adtec, or going to Blu-Ray (I know, more money, may not work)? > > Oi. That was long. Sorry. Hope that helps. > > Have a good weekend. > > Daniel > > > > > Jason Bondy wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> We have recently begun moving toward High-Definition video for all of our >> interviews, documentaries and other footage to be used in exhibits. We > are >> using internally produced video as well as video shot by outside > producers. >> However, we are running into some obstacles determining the best solution >> for playback in the galleries. We will be playing the HD video files from >> Windows-based computers connected to plasma monitors. Currently we are >> trying it with H.264 encoded QuickTime files, but they are very "jumpy" on >> video clips with a lot of motion. We have upgraded the RAM and video > cards >> in the computers, but with very little improvement. Also, we using Cat5 >> DVI/HDMI extenders as there is quite a bit of distance from the computer > to >> the monitor. >> >> >> >> Who else out there is using HD video in your exhibits? How are you doing >> it? We would welcome any suggestions or input you may have. >> >> >> >> Thank you so much, >> >> >> >> Jason >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> >> Jason Bondy >> >> Exhibit AV/IT Systems >> >> Oklahoma History Center >> >> 2401 N. 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