To be honest I dont remember computers choking on 320x240 4 years ago. I know that around 5 years ago when Apple put some 720p H.264 videos on their website quite a lot of computers struggled to handle it.
I guess bandwidth and procesing power are still issues, which along with device compatibility makes me think I wont go above 720p on the web for some years to come, but yeah its better than it was. I am especially glad that the era of low framerates is pretty much at an end - we dont recommend 12 or 15fps anymore for example. Im also very glad that there are more progressive recording devices around now so people are less likely to run into hideous interlacing issues when publishing videos at higher resolution. As for reasonably fast computers still choking on HD H.264, much of the progress in recent years has been about using the GPU to do some of the decoding work, preventing the cpu from getting overloaded. This requires the right software, operating system, graphics hardware. Ive been meaning to check out the h.264 support in Windows 7 to see what its like - got any good links to some 1080p web content that I can use for testing purposes? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> wrote: > > well, Vimeo just announced that it's added 1080p with ACCHD support > (for Vimeo Plus members). > http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=2568 > > Youtube did this in the fall but it's not becoming common. I have a > pretty decent mac and it can barely handle playback. But it was just 4 > years ago when people complained of their computes choking on 320x240 > videos. Bandwidth was slow and processing power limited. Just a matter > of time before the groupBorgmind upgrades itself. > > Really really beautiful images at 1080p. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://momentshowing.net > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 >
