Maybe more people would be interested in downloading his stuff and watching it offline, as it is high-definition, so the highest-res versions might now be such a great fit for the browser anyway, due either to bitrate being higher than their broadband speed, or the fullsize video not fitting well inside webpages?
How were you planning on handling the higher-res versions? You could just have them as links that people save, or watch in a new browser window, but there are also options for handling such things nicely in-browser. Jay mentioned VPiP for example. Whilst the standard use of this (videos playing in place of a thumbnail) may not work too well for you with the higher res stuff, there is a thickbox mode which may suit the 1280x version quite nicely. Another nice solution is flash fullscreen mode. For example you could have your 1920x version playing at half size within a flash player on the page, and when people press the fullscreen button, they get to see it fullscreen at its full resolution (or lower for many who dont have 1920x monitors). This will be a real option once the new flash player that supports h264 gets out of beta. The XVID format you mention, does that create .mp4's or .avi's or something else? Again it doesnt matter so much if people are downloading, but for in browser experience, it needs to be mp4. Have you done many comparisons of quality? Animation can show up the weaknesses in most formats, and I was wondering if you knew what sort of bitrates you are likely to use for the 1280 and 1920 versions? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bam, exactly why I have to decide on a format, encoding under linux > > isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world and I rather spend that > > time animating. > > H264 is a pain in the arse but it appears to be the best option, OGG > > Theora and XVID are the easiest for me to produce. > > we provide a Ogg version. > Porblem is that the Cortado player is really buggy. > So a good user experience is downloading the video to your desktop and > playing it with VLC. > Not something most people would do. > > Linux needs much better tools for video IMHO. > > I guess many of us take the time to compress multiple formats because > there is no standard. > it's a pain, but we hope that more people watch. > > > How would I produce multiple feeds for each format? > > the plugin, vPIP.org, creates the separate RSS feeds for you. > they are a little long and unreadable, so many of us then throw those > feeds into Feedburner so we can get stats and an easier to read feed. > > vPIP is GPL....so if you wanted to help optimize this feature... > > Jay > > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > Video: http://ryanishungry.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman > Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 >
