Re: streaming videos

Dan,

How do I turn the compression up?  All I could find was differnt codecs.

Thanks,

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel McMurray" <mcmurd(at)ccaa.edu>
To: "Timothy G. Embler" <hwg(at)myrealbox.com>
Cc: "hwg-software" <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: streaming videos


> Tim,
>
> Try a higher compression on the AVI file.  The higher the compression, the
> longer the rendering process, but it's worth it.  I ran a multimedia
> summer camp last year, where the campers made music videos.  An
> uncompressed 5 minute AVI file easily ran about 2 gigs, but a compressed
> one was able to get down to 150-175 megs.  When I do rendering, though, on
> a p200, at a compression quality of 65% or so, the time spent rendering
> runs about 4 hours for a 5 minute AVI.  There is really no way to get the
> time down on something like that, unfortunately.  My only suggestion for
> that is to render overnight when you don't need your computer.
>
> Dan
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Timothy G. Embler wrote:
>
> > I tried using Adobe Premire 5.1 to do it but to be honest with you I
have
> > never really worked with videos before and it just doesnt seem to be
working
> > and I dont have the time right now to learn it all.  It took hours to
> > convert a file from mpeg to avi using it and it ended up being over
> > 1gig...the original file was 50megs.  do you have any tricks for that
or?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel McMurray" <mcmurd(at)ccaa.edu>
> > To: "Timothy G. Embler" <hwg(at)myrealbox.com>
> > Cc: "hwg-software" <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 8:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: streaming videos
> >
> >
> > > Tim,
> > >
> > > At
> > > http://home1.2.sbbs.se/jsl/index.htm
> > > there is a DOS converter (mpav100.exe).  Honestly, I haven't had the
need
> > > to use a converter of this nature - if I need to convert a video file,
I
> > > usually re-render it (it takes a little longer, but the quality is
> > > preserved entirely).  I have used an AVI to MPG converter, though, and
it
> > > worked fine.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps!
> > > Dan
> > > mcmurd(at)ccaa.edu
> > >
> > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Timothy G. Embler wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello.  A client of mine wants to use Windows Media Player for
streaming
> > > > videos.  He has the videos in mpeg format now and the windows media
> > producer
> > > > will only take avis and quicktime formats.  Is there a way to
convert
> > mpeg
> > > > to avi?  Or any other suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Tim
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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