Originally posted by moss
Any thoughts about how we can make some of this material availble on the 'net? I can rustle up some web space, let me know.
-moss The Trouble With TribblesYes Indeed! If were only possible to efficiently share these nifty little
Electrojake Videos with the world.
The problem is. . .
Take my meager little web site for instance. It’s about 12 pages deep, mostly photos. The entire thing uses up about 4 megs of space on the Verizon server. Not bad considering they give me 10 megs as part of my contract, (seems like plenty of room to play, no?).
Now, lets take a movie. . .
The video I published of
Climber020 flying through the trees, it was 640 x 480 and less than 2 minutes long. As you could see, the quality/resolution was somewhat low too. Yet, it was 13 megs BIG!
One stinky little video-short would blowout my entire web space! Then there is download speed. My DSL line at home is good for about 600+ kbps. That’s plenty for what I do here but even at that speed, it takes a considerable amount of time to download large file. Most users won’t wait for the download to complete.
Now-a-days there are some very impressive video codec’s available that could cut my video size in half but then there is a compatibility problem. I consider it
critical that the format of the files can be played by
anyone who downloads it. So I guess you could say that “fast & easy” comes at a great expense in the video world.
Burning to disk. . .
The disk I sent you was a “data” type CD-ROM. That was intentional. DVD’s, and self booting V-CD movie disks are neat stuff, and I can produce them but once again, compatibly is everything. So I keep it short and simple (ala data CD) for the sake of compatibility.
Sorry about the long-winded post but it was therapeutic.
Regards,
Electrojake
