Quicktime 6 Test!

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Quicktime 6 Test!

Marc Martin
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Hi all,

A couple of months ago I attempted to post a video using one of the
newer video encoders (MPEG-4), but it seemed that nobody was able
to play it. I just want to do this check once again and see if
this still holds true. The following video should play if you
have the Quicktime 6 Player:

http://ufoseries.com/timelash.mov

Note that I said Quicktime 6 -- version 5 or older will not work.
This is a free download at:

http://www.quicktime.com

This clip is from the French UFO DVDs, and demonstrates how they
filmed the night sequences of TIMELASH in broad daylight.

I've been thinking of upgrading the quality of some of the
clips on my website, but so far a good format eludes me.
I realize that MPEG-1 is the most portable, but the file sizes
are too large for decent quality (at least with the 1 and
2 pass VBR encoders I've tried). So far, MPEG-4 seems the
best in terms of file size/quality (but I need to get
Yahoo to update their servers to support .mp4 files
as a video/mp4 MIME type -- hence this experiment is
a .mov)

Marc
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Re: Quicktime 6 Test!

jamesgibbon
Marc Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A couple of months ago I attempted to post a video using one of the
> newer video encoders (MPEG-4), but it seemed that nobody was able
> to play it. I just want to do this check once again and see if
> this still holds true. The following video should play if you
> have the Quicktime 6 Player:
>
> http://ufoseries.com/timelash.mov
>
> Note that I said Quicktime 6 -- version 5 or older will not work.
>

Linux users will find that both mplayer and xine are able to
cope happily with MPEG-4 files. I tried the timelash clip with
mplayer - looks good. Interesting stuff, thanks Marc.

James
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Re: Quicktime 6 Test!

Marc Martin
Administrator
>Linux users will find that both mplayer and xine are able to
>cope happily with MPEG-4 files. I tried the timelash clip with
>mplayer - looks good. Interesting stuff, thanks Marc.

Wow, I didn't expect that to play in Linux! That's an advantage
over using the Sorensen 3 codec right there... also, if Linux
can play these as .mov files, then I don't really need to
worry about the web server not supporting .mp4 files correctly.

Marc
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Re: Quicktime 6 Test!

Ty-2
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It played fine here as well.

Ty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Martin" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:11 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Quicktime 6 Test!


> Hi all,
>
> A couple of months ago I attempted to post a video using one of the
> newer video encoders (MPEG-4), but it seemed that nobody was able
> to play it. I just want to do this check once again and see if
> this still holds true. The following video should play if you
> have the Quicktime 6 Player:
>
> http://ufoseries.com/timelash.mov
>
> Note that I said Quicktime 6 -- version 5 or older will not work.
> This is a free download at:
>
> http://www.quicktime.com
>
> This clip is from the French UFO DVDs, and demonstrates how they
> filmed the night sequences of TIMELASH in broad daylight.
>
> I've been thinking of upgrading the quality of some of the
> clips on my website, but so far a good format eludes me.
> I realize that MPEG-1 is the most portable, but the file sizes
> are too large for decent quality (at least with the 1 and
> 2 pass VBR encoders I've tried). So far, MPEG-4 seems the
> best in terms of file size/quality (but I need to get
> Yahoo to update their servers to support .mp4 files
> as a video/mp4 MIME type -- hence this experiment is
> a .mov)
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>