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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 12:19 AM
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Okay keeping file size, screen size and quality over the internet in a delicate balance, what do you think of these two?

This is a 14 second clip of Ralph and John H burnouts.

Be sure to set your video player to 100% not 50% and not 200% for the first viewing

This one is 432 pixels wide and is just under 1.9 mb
http://www.challengevideos.com/2007/...E0010_0042.wmv

Also 432 pixels but sharper picture and about 3.1 MB
http://www.challengevideos.com/2007/...E0010_0042.wmv

The next two are about 3.3 MB each but bigger

First one is 720 pixels wide
www.challengevideos.com/2007/event1/Movie.wmv


Second one is 856 pixels wide
http://www.challengevideos.com/2007/...Movie_0001.wmv
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 12:55 AM
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Dude that 856 is crazy... I can go full screen and its still clear....
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by INSANITY
Dude that 856 is crazy... I can go full screen and its still clear....
Clear... hmmm.. check out this video

http://www.grandsportc3.com/sgmp1035.mov

Well, that video is a little bit larger than 3.3 mb
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:09 AM
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First one is to small
Second,third & fourth I can't tell any difference

But of course all the lights on the tree look the same to me also
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:15 AM
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...and another set of tires bites the dust
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by INSANITY
Dude that 856 is crazy... I can go full screen and its still clear....

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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by GrandSportC3
Clear... hmmm.. check out this video

http://www.grandsportc3.com/sgmp1035.mov

Well, that video is a little bit larger than 3.3 mb
your video is good Olivier. You have a couple advantages thou. Position on the starting line, sunlight and no need to put up 2000 clips so no server issues.

Additionally, I have experimented with some mov stuff and while most can view them, not all visitors have the software to view them so I try to stay with .wmv
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So nobody else has an opinion?

hate to do all the work and then find out some people cannot handle the 856 width video
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Originally Posted by REDGAR
So nobody else has an opinion?

hate to do all the work and then find out some people cannot handle the 856 width video
Edgar,

FWIW, the 856 width is working fine on my computer.

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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 11:51 AM
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I like the 2, 3.3M

They look terrific..
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they all looked good to me - 22" monitor lcd
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Videos 2,3,&4 worked great on my computer. The first one was 'fuzzy'.

I had all of them on full screen, and the 720 & 856 were the best in clarity.
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Originally Posted by REDGAR
your video is good Olivier. You have a couple advantages thou. Position on the starting line, sunlight and no need to put up 2000 clips so no server issues.

Additionally, I have experimented with some mov stuff and while most can view them, not all visitors have the software to view them so I try to stay with .wmv

anybody with a PC only needs to download Quicktime and .mov will work..It's that easy.. However, not everyone has a 5+ MBPS connection to download a 16+ MB video..Luckily, I won't run into problems with my server space.. Got 200 GB available and only used like 50 mb so far
.wmv will only work on PC's and not on Macs but .mov will work on both..
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Originally Posted by REDGAR
So nobody else has an opinion?

hate to do all the work and then find out some people cannot handle the 856 width video
The 856 looks great here. I have a 17 inch LCD with 1024x768 resolution. I think my setup is pretty standard and the footage looked awesome.

I guess for me the question would be what file size is too big for the average users? The 3.3 meg file was fine for me, but I'm sitting on a 10 meg pipe.
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by INSANITY
Dude that 856 is crazy... I can go full screen and its still clear....
Great video.
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Videos 2,3,&4 worked great on my computer.
I'm running Win Media Player on a 17" LCD and these looked fine.
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:22 PM
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The 856 looks great.
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 01:57 PM
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Is what Olivier saying correct that .wmv cannot be viewed on a mac? I had not heard that before.

Anybody using a mac can tell me if they cannot view our videos?

Olivier I played around some h.264 codec stuff and was real happy with it but was concerned about the use of quicktime...yes it is a download but not a lot of folks have and then it tries to associate itself with other stuff and that makes it all crazy. For a power user that is not a problem but not all of us are power users
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 02:25 PM
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Bigger the better I say, but I do realize you have to host millions of videos(as time goes on, we will hit that mark I'm sure), so you would probably have to go with something in the medium range.
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