Flash file

dvideo wrote on 10/19/2006, 7:34 AM

when creating a flash file with Flix software, under the flash 8 SLV, there are different settings to choose from such as 56k, 300k, 512k and so on. Can someone briefly explain how each of these will give a different result. Also does SLV stand for single layer?
thank you.

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[r]Evolution wrote on 10/19/2006, 8:17 AM

56k, 300k, 512k and so on.

These are indications of your Audiences Internet connection.

These figures determine how much data is being sent/streamed to the End User.
If you do all your files at 512K... they will look really nice with very little artifacts... but people on Dial Up connections will have a hard time viewing them because the data is just too much to push through their internet connections pipeline. All they would get would be 'Buffering' over & over & over... never really seeing the video play.

On the other hand... if you do all your files at 56K... they will show lots of artifacts because most of the video information has been stripped to make a smaller file. Usually 56K files will be smaller than 320x240 to lessen the area that has to be encoded therefore using the data a bit more efficiently.

If your files are to be played locally or from a Disc... you can get away with going even higher. We used to encode FLVs at 1600K-640x480 for a company that played their videos from a CD. There's NO WAY that would ever stream... not even to a T1.

This is the beauty of WMV. You can make a WMV stream that contains multiple Bit Rates. This means that the Video itself will determine which stream to send based on the End User's pipeline. If they can handle the 512K stream... it will send it to them. If they can only handle the 56K stream... that's what they'll get.

--- I'm not sure what SLV is. I've never heard of that.