<div id="_htmlarea_default_style_" style="font:10pt arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:08:35 -0600<br> John Kintree <jkintree@swbell.net> wrote:<br>> As far as video playback is concerned, it seems to mostly come down to<br>> how the video is compressed - although Gnash (the open flash player)<br>> still has a ways to go to play flash media as well as the closed source<br>> flash players.<br>> <br>>For the Colingo activity and library, we've found it very difficult to<br>> find optimum settings for flash and instead have decided to go with<br>> Theora. We've managed to find some compression settings that keep the<br>> videos incredibly small with surprisingly good playback quality when<br>> played with Totem.<br>> <br>> Arthur Richards<br>> Colingo<br>> <br>> John Kintree wrote:<br>>> There is a new review of the XO laptop at:<br>>> http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4093<br><br>Hi John,<b
r><br>Personnaly I use OGG Theora for all my videos.<br>I have a little example page where I upload a video encoded at 256kbps max (both audio and video) here:<br>http://home.tele2.fr/crossover/<br><br>I use a fifo with mplayer to provide the content to encoder_example.<br>The video is encoded at 15fps, transcoded with mencoder to get this framerate.<br><br>For the audio I use a mono channel at 22050Hz and encoded with the -1 setting.<br><br>Every time I reset the settings to be at 256kbps so I do not have fixed settings, it depends of the video material. The audio is almost always at 24kbps.<br><br>I even have a good example at 128kbps here: http://gameclash.org/breve.php3?id_breve=53<br>It is quite rare to reach such a low bitrate with a good quality.<br><br>Best
regards<br>--<br>ZikZak<br></jkintree@swbell.net></div>