Last night I got some free help from a friend getting a Flash video player working. Flash is still pretty sweet, I just wish I had the time to learn more about it. I've been through a lot of the basics twice now with books over the last six or seven years, but never really got into it hardcore.
Anyway, as much as I love H.264, especially for getting giant HD files down to something more or less manageable, the files are pretty big and some weaker computers have a hard time playing them back. I'm not fond of Flash video, but I'm conceding that it's "good enough" for now. Since we're going to post video for Maverick's media day on PointBuzz, I can't saturate the pipe with giant files.
The 16:9 resolution I'm going to use is 640x360. It's not exactly a standard resolution, but it's about 1/4 of the 1280x720 I'll be shooting at. It's still a great deal better than the 360x240 we used to do in the old days. At around 1.2 mbits, I can get a file around 10 MB per minute. That's not horrible. Much better than the 30 MB per minute I had one some of the full 1280x720 stuff!
Video always reminds me how much I love it. I like it so much more than writing code, I just don't have as many chances to use it. Also ironic, I need to write a great deal of code to deal with it, as well as photographs, another thing I love. Hopefully the library code I've been working on lately will last me another four years.
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