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Vladfire 2: H.264 encoding mov
Posted: 4:35 pm
July 19th, 2006
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Vladfire

Ok, so I succumbed to presure to try and release the vlog in a .mov format. Let me know what you think, it is encoded as streaming with Fast Start so it should play almost immediately. The downside? It takes quite a bit of horse power to encode, this almost ran for two hours on a 3.0 GHz PC with 2GB ram. Also, not compatible with the old versions of Quicktime so hopefully you have a new one. On the bright side, it is almost the third of the wmv file.

Click here to start streaming

By the way, still going through the emails. I really did not expect this level of response to the first two videos. So far the favourite word seems to be "You made my day" :) Thank you, thank you, thank you. As for the tilted head – The camera itself is tilted so I try to compensate for it (unintentionally) and even seem to talk out of one side of my mouth more than the other. I've never really paid much attention to my mug until now, it's interesting to be self-conscious about the way I am at home. Should I shave? Do I need a haircut? Does this shirt look dirty? Weird.

Anyhow, the biggest complaint so far – enclosures. Considering that I haven't picked the default format yet doing enclosures would have been difficult. I create the enclosure feed for the SBS Show by hand so I am not 100% sure how to do this yet. Learning process folks, takes a while to nail down the distribution end of things but as usual, its all about the message.

By the way, set this beast up on the vlogmap . I'm node #1314 :)

6 Comments

Tim Barrett |

I do not like it, Sam I am…. still trying to load, but it could be my connection. I’ll try it from another location later tonight.



vlad |

Dunno man, I have it embedded for a test, check out http://www.vladville.com/vladfire/test2.html

I don’t like it all over, I just spoke to a friend of mine whose wife is a video editor and she said that even on a quad-G4 it is not done in a trivial amount of time.

Assuming I can’t do batch processing (ie, throw an avi and give it a task to convert to 5 different formats) I think I’m just going to go with wmv and let the rest fall by the wayside.

H.264 is just a painfully piggy process, on the CPU. Plenty of memory and I/O but the CPU (dual Xeon dual core) is just burning up.

-Vlad



Amanda Weiss |

Looks MUCH better, thanks.



Edgar |

Saw both, Quicktime wins two big thumbs up man, it’s just faster and looks a lot better. I’d dump wmv.



vlad |

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

You guys are killing me, I was really expecting everyone to think it sucks :( Guess I'm going to have to dedicate more time to encoding this stuff overnight. The encoder is simply far too slow to tollerate and I'm such an impulsive guy that this is really going to be a love-hate relationship.

-Vlad



Nikman |

Tilted head is cool. I live my whole life with my head tilted.








 

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