Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/04/72 11:27

"Gary Eickmeier" wrote ...
> Yes, as I mentioned, I have been trying Windows Media,
> but I have to get it to 60 meg before I get good quality (12
> minute video). Is that normal or what? How big can it be
> to go on a web site?

WMV has been the best-performing and widest-available
codec for web distribution that I have found. How does
your notion of "good quality" compare to similar video on
the web?

60MB may be OK for people on broadband, but the majority
of users are still stuck with dialup. Few of us on dialup would
attempt to view/download a 60MB file unless we were REALLY
motivated.

Are you sure you can't live with lower quality (maybe 15FPS
or something)? Hard to offer opinions when we don't know the
content. What about breaking it into more managable pieces?

I just went and cheked a page of WMV videos I maintain and
they average 5-7MB per minute at a quality level that is really
higher than it needs to be. When we need to put more videos
up online, I will likely re-encode them for lower bitrate (i.e.
smaller size)
http://www.professionallyspeaking.org/archive.html

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