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Posted by yeltz on 07/04/06 03:00
P.C. Ford wrote:
> I have done a instructional video for a piece of medical equipment. I
> have delivered it in DVD format; it has a menu which has links to
> various chapters.
>
> After delivering the master, the company wondered if the video could
> be put in streaming format. The reason for this is that many of their
> computers are older and do not have DVD players. No problem encoding
> the video. It will play from a cd on the machine, not from a server.
>
> However, I don't know how to create a useable menu in a streaming
> format. From a Google search I believe this is possible. I believe if
> I used Flash video, Flash could be used to create a menu.
>
> As things are going right now. I think I will build a html page and
> then link to entire video. The video will be chopped up in "chapters"
> and then linked via html. Thus, there will be in effect two copies of
> the video, the entire video and the chapters of the video. Half an
> hour of 640x480 at 15 frames/second seems to take about 300 meg.
>
> I am vaguely aware that it is possible to do the chapters with some
> kind of WMV scripting. Also, Flash is a possibility for a menu.
>
> Please let me know if you have further info. Anyway, I want to see the
> backside of this project. If you can point me to useful info that
> would be great....or, better yet, do this for me (for a price of
> course) I would be every so grateful.
>
> Hope someone sees this on a holiday weekend. I'll post again if I
> don't get any answers.
>
> You can email directly if you email using pcford as the user and
> criterionweb.com as the domain.
I think you're making things much too difficult for yourself. Why do
you want to stream the video if it's already on a CD? Encoding to WMV
and using Flash to create some sort of menu structure is overkill.
My suggestion is that you encode your video in the MPG1 format create a
VCD. A VCD is like a really basic DVD and it can have menus as well A
VCD is natively playable on all Windows machines (use Windows Media
Player) but if you want to be able to see the menu, you'll need some
third party software.
See: http://www.videohelp.com/play#vcd for details.
To encode your source video to the MPEG1 format, you can use TMPGEnc.
Here are a couple of guides on how to author a VCD
http://www.geocities.com/omegaweaponvcd/vcd_guide.htm
http://www.videohelp.com/sefy/?id=chapters2.html
http://www.vcdeasy.org/modules.php?name=_Guides&id=Start
The simplest and quickest way would be using Nero Vision Express.
The VCD specs can be found here:
http://www.videohelp.com/vcd
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