[osflash] high quality video

[John Dowdell]

> Our Video guy has not been able to get FLVs to playback with the same quality as Quicktime yet.  

How much does he know about video compression yet?

(For instance, from what you told us, he may have recompressed a QuickTime file. Or it might be his compression settings, or even the tool used to compress the animation. Hard to guess from here.)

A standalone might be faster than a webpage... browsers allocate CPU cycles to plugins in different ways, and some browsers do slow things down. Same engine, though.

jd




-----Original Message-----
From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org on behalf of Iman Khabazian
Sent: Sun 7/22/2007 10:41 AM
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: Re: [osflash] high quality video
 
Hello John,

The videos are generated from 3D max.  Our Video guy has not been able to
get FLVs to playback with the same quality as Quicktime yet.  My best effort
would be to create a player for him  (with Zinc or AIR) and try to wrap it
in Flash player 9.0.60 to see if we can get a big quality boost.  I dont
know much about what settings he uses to create the video but any
suggestions would be appreciated.


On 7/20/07, John Dowdell <jdowdell at adobe.com> wrote:
>
> Iman Khabazian wrote:
> > I need to create a desktop application in flash that plays videos.
> > This video must play back at a very high quality.  So far the
> > playback I have been getting out of FLV has left much to be
> > desired.  I am using Flash player 9.0.45 but I hear this might get
> > better if I move to 9.0.60  (I need to test).  I can embed a
> > quicktime or real media player in Zinc but it seems that Zinc
> > doesnt play large videos as well as it use to.  I am also
> > considering using  AIR as a wrapper but Im pretty sure I can't
> > embed quicktime or real media player and I would have to hope that
> > AIR can give me better FLV playback than I have seen.
>
> How's your shooting, how's your compression?
>
> (Codecs do have differences, but the larger practical differences are in
> how the video is prepared for delivery... a camera stand alone usually makes
> a bigger difference than any other, and cuts instead of pans offer another
> dramatic difference in final experience.)
>
> jd/adobe
>
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