OT: fx1 & super8 flash flv & h264 examples

dreamlx wrote on 10/30/2007, 5:21 AM
I post this as there have been recent discussions about flash, I think this might be of interest. I know, many of you don't like flash, but I wanted the videos on my pages to be also accessible by users using other operating systems than Windows. On the examples and super8 pages you will find the videos once encoded using flv and once using h264. So if you have the latest flash beta you can compare. Encoding has been done at 1280x720 5mbit, 640x360 2mbit and 320x180 512kbit. Under super8 you will also see a super8 transfer example. All demos (except the super8 ones) have been shot using the fx1. The super8 has been transfered with a self build transfer machine.

http://www.luxmemories.lu

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craftech wrote on 10/30/2007, 6:41 AM
When I load the "Super8/8mm films" page the flash player 8 video plays.

However when I click on the "h264 (higher quality, newest flash beta required)" nothing plays nor do I intend to install the newest flash beta.

Next I click on each of the "Quality: low (512kbit) - medium (2mbit) - high (5mbit)" links and nothing happens. Looking at it, one is not sure that anything newer is required unless one already knows that it does.

As a customer I probably would then have to decide whether I liked your work based upon the flash video playing when the page loads or move on to someone else.

The content of the video is good so I would probably assume that a DVD would look much better than the flash video playing. That may or may not work for everyone. If it were my business I would provide a low res and high res QT video as well as a WM9 video to choose from and leave the flash player 8 file running just as you have it.

John
dreamlx wrote on 10/30/2007, 3:56 PM
Hi,
thanks for your opinion.

Concerning low, medium and high not working, this is because you had switched to h264 before. If you go back to flv, low medium and high will work.
dreamlx wrote on 10/31/2007, 5:51 PM
Craftech:

I think the main problem with the current interface was the confusion generated by the format selection. I removed the format selection now completely. Instead the video player itself detects if the installed flash plugin supports h264 and will fallback to flv if h264 is not supported. Could you please test again and tell me what you think ?

Thanks in advance
David Arendt
craftech wrote on 10/31/2007, 6:21 PM
That's much better David. Nice and easy to understand for anyone.

The MP4 took over ten minutes to download despite it's 43.4 MB file size. Then VLC media player couldn't play the file. That was a first.

Is there a problem with the web server?

John

dreamlx wrote on 11/1/2007, 1:23 AM
I have looked at the logfiles and I see nothing special. I tried an MP4 download here and it was fast (30 secs for 25mbytes) and playing fine using the latest version of vlc. Which film did you download and with which vlc version are you viewing, not that only one file is corrupted ?
craftech wrote on 11/1/2007, 6:13 AM
Which film did you download and with which vlc version are you viewing, not that only one file is corrupted ?
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The one on the main video page. I just tried it again this morning and it downloaded in 10 seconds and opened and played with VLC Media Player perfectly. Must have been a problem on their server last night for some reason. Either way it looked good and everything works very well and is easy to navigate. Nice job.

John