Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:59:27 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: viren@rstcorp.com, kelly@pluto.plutotech.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starwars trailer? Message-ID: <19990312105927.B29252@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <199903121704.KAA32481@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:04:06AM -0700 References: <199903121529.KAA03498@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <199903121704.KAA32481@panzer.plutotech.com>
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On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Viren R. Shah wrote... > > > > That looks like it is the first SW trailer, not the new one which just > > came out yesterday: [snip] > > The new one has the Sorenson codec, which my version of xanim does not > > support. There's also an mpeg version out, but the only app that I > > know that can play that is mpeg_play which does video only (no > > audio). > > Bummer. Well, I don't know any magic tricks to get it to work. I suppose > someone would either have to get an MPEG player that does audio too, or > someone will have to add support for the "Sorenson" codec to xanim. Sorenson compression seems to be really cool. About eight months ago I was working for a guy who was embedding small videos on his web site; he had been searching around for good encoding methods and found Sorenson encoding, which has a high compression rate with minimal data loss. The resulting video streams well and was the best thing he found for his application. I was there as he was doing a side-by-side comparison with other algorithms, and saw that Sorenson generated a good-looking video that was much better quality than a similar-sized one using several other encoding mechanisms (not sure of the exact ones). Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Madness takes its toll. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com Please have exact change. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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