Quick time or Mpeg?

Gerald_Beranek

Gerald_Beranek

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Friday, 9/23/05, I fell a Monterey cypress. Actually a couple. One, a single about 5' dbh, was broken about 60 feet up and hung up in the other, a triple, about 8' dbh. Pretty dangerous to think about going up and taking it apart. The conseneous was to fall the trees--together.

It took a most unusual turn,,, and I have it on video, 2 minutes long.

I can compress it to deliver on the web. But I need to know what is the maximum size I can upload to the Buzzboard.?

After I recieve that info I can optimize the video stream for delivery. Hopefully have it ready to deliver tomorrow.

Jerry B
 
MPEG is probably the format which can be played on (most) every type of computer. Apple does not provide the necessary components to be nearly as portable. That being said, since I'm stuck behind a modem and would like to see the video, with the Apple encoding you sometimes get more bang for the buck. With that being said, I can't view nearly half the .mov files on your Tree Story CDROM (but I'm not complaining; just mentioning).

In terms of size, the upload dialog here currently says there's a limit of 5,242,880 bytes.

[edit -- had walked away for a while and forgot to check for more traffic before posting. Yes, it would be 5 MB (more properly 5 MiB -- "mebibytes" = "binary megabytes"; 5 MB is 5 x 10^6 = 5,000,000 while 5 MiB is 5 x 2^20 = 5,242,880. Hard drive manufacturers have gotten grief for stating capacity using strict MB when most people think in terms of MiB when dealing with computers, which deal primarily in base 2 digits, not base 10)]

Glen
 
Thanks, Glens. I trying a number of different compressors to keep the stream down under 5 megs. When I find the one that does the best job I'll upload the file.

Oh, if you drag the .mov files off the CD to your hardrive they generally play much better. I made those little .mov files sometime ago. I hope I can do a better job with this one.

Jerry B
 
Would you be able to systematically drop every (2nd, 3rd, 4th, Xth) frame to help get the size down if need be?

It's only a third of the files on the CDROM that I have trouble with. It appears as though I don't have some specific codec required to work with the sound streams in them. Something to do with "MAC6", evidently.
 
Probably wouldn't be too good to email anything that large to me at this time. If it could be put on a private web server and a link sent to me I could fetch it. But at the moment, the most computing power I have running is a Pentium III 450 MHz. It might take a couple of days to process the file to an MPEG (it took 39 hours straight for a script to run automatically compiling KDE to be optimized for the box), hahaha!

That brings up another thought. If it's just going to be plain too big to post here as an attachment with any kind of quality/dimensional-size at all, putting it on a web server and posting the link to it here would work. That and/or posting it to a bittorrent site.
 
Ekka, I recieved your mail. Thanks, and I will take you up on that offer.

The compressors I'm using rendered the 2 minute avi file down to a 160 by 120 blk and wht .mov file just under 5 megs. Kind of funky. I tried uploading and recieved an error message from the buzz. Wrong extension! So I'll try again and send it as a MPG file. That extension should work, I hope.

Update; All failed. The lowest compressed file I could achieve with an MPG extension is 7.2 megs. Darn. I'm not going to give up til I get it right.

sorry for the delay. Ekka, how do you need that file sent to you? Uncompressed avi on DVD. Only 2 minutes.

Let me know,

Jerry B
 
You could zip the .mov file. The site will accept zipped files okay. It might even find some redundancy still present in the file and net a smaller transfer size.
 
Here's a direct link:

http://216.86.151.120/videos/72/139359_3ed69.mpg

So maybe it didn't go down just exactly as you'd planned, but overall I'd say the job was a success from what I could see. The homeowner is fortunate none of that stuff came his way (toward the house) on it's own before you got there.

What gets done with all the mess on a job like that?

Glen
 
That was a bit scary huh Jer? I don't think that it went that way just because of luck. I'm pretty sure that you knew which way to run and which way the tree might move if it went too soon. Glad that you got that video to work.
 
Cool! You got away in plenty of time, you knew your escape path. That was a bugger to have to deal with, but I wouldn't expect any less from you. Mission accomplished!
 
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