Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 09/25/05 03:03

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "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

Thanks everyone for your extensive replies. Richard, I checked out a few
of your videos on the link above, and they are great. Larger screen size
than I am getting, and took no time to download. I tried to E-mail one
of mine, I think the 30 meg one, and I gave up after a few minutes
because I didn't want to put the recipient through all that download
time. So how do you get your 180 meg files up and running so fast on
your web site?

Thanks,

Gary Eickmeier

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