Even though it's Adobe and official and all, run it through FLVMDI
regardless, just for peace of mind. As I said, it will ensure it's all
good.
As for skippability, check out these pages:
http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/11/2/Streaming-flv-video-via-PHP-take-two
http://www.xmoov.com/xmoov-php/
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player (nice free flv flash
player that supports the pseudostreaming thingy)
-- Alan
On Jan 24, 2008 9:04 AM, Doug Nicola <doug(at)realfunart.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Alan. I'd be using the Adobe encoder, so I'd assume that
> would work fine.
>
> I'm going to take a look into your "skippable" hint also.
>
> ~Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On
> Behalf
>
> Of Alan Fregtman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:41 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Latest Quicktime
>
>
> Also, after generating your FLV, some encoders don't correctly write
> in metadata for it, so you might wanna run it through FLV-MDI (FLV
> MetaData Injector) to make sure it's OK:
> http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/
>
> It will ensure there's a "keyframes" metadata item. (Some encoders
> make it, some forget to.) This will help players with the scrubbing,
> but as Phil said, it's directly linked to the number of keyframes in
> your video.
>
> -- Alan
>
> ps: With this "keyframes" metadata and some PHP magic, you can also
> make your FLV "skippable" (like some Youtube videos and all
> GoogleVideo videos, where you can move ahead in time and it will start
> rebuffering from that point onwards).
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 9:04 AM, Doug Nicola <doug(at)realfunart.com> wrote:
> > This is great info. Thanks, Phil.
> >
> > ~Doug
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On
> > Behalf
> > Of Phil Williams
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:48 AM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >
> > Subject: RE: Latest Quicktime
> >
> >
> > The responsiveness of scrubbing the FLV vids is directly related to
> > the
> > number of keyframes created during the encoding process. By default,
> > it's set to automatic, but using a custom setting you could
> > theoretically add as many as you like - one per frame would allow
> very
> > responsive scrubbing but the file size will then shoot up.
> >
> > Of course, the length of the video (and length of the slider bar!)
> > will
> > determine how many you should encode for smooth scrubbing, but 1 per
> > second normally suffices as a general rule of thumb.
> >
> > We often use FLV to send to our clients, with a 'save as' link below
> > it
> > and a FLV standalone exe player below that! Much better quality/size
> > ratio than QT, but there are always some clients that will want
> > something different...
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf
> > Of Joe Laffey
> > Sent: 23 January 2008 16:25
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: Latest Quicktime
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Ahmidou Lyazidi wrote:
> >
> > > My last found is to make .flv with the On2 VP6 codec. It doesnt
> > desaturate
> > > like the sorenson or mpeg4 and this is the best compromise between
> > quality
> > > and file size, as far I have seen.
> > > Unfortunaly you need a flash player, (you can embed it easaly in
> an
> > html
> > > page : www.*flv*-*player*.net)
> > > or play it in mediaplayer classic or VLC but it is not really
> > democratized
> > > in the agencies, all those peoples are using macs and QT.
> >
> >
> > We tried that. Got complaints that they could not easily scrub the
> > movies... thought we were trying to hide mistakes... They could not
> > easily
> > save the movies and play later (easy according to them).
> >
> > --
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