BrianAZ, do you hace a video example you can link me too, or post?

Also, back to the camera discussion (I alkready have the mount LOL)...do the few cameras listed have the features I would prefer?

16:9 resolution, MiniDV and digital image stabilization....

 

Video link

Note that when uploaded, Google changed the file format from an uncompressed .avi format to their proprietary format which compressed the image some, and caused distortion.

As of right now, I get an error when trying to play the video. I think that Google may be having some problems with their storage.

 

I can see it, no problem. It's actually quite clear and crisp.

Google's video isn't proprietary. if you choose to download it for iPod, you get the MPEG4 file. i had to recover a demo i made and posted on GoogleVideo and that's how i got it back.

 

Playing in the Google video player required that you use their format. The .avi file is much sharper. However, it is over 3 Gigs in that format. That is why Google compressed it.

 

3 gigs for 13 minutes of video?! that's got to be encoded at some LUDICRIS bitrate for it to be MPEG4. It is an MP4 .avi file right? most .avi files are, but you never know, since it's a container format. you could put any format into a avi... i hate them with a passion. The Google Video Player is a streaming player. The download you get is a referance file. google is probably streaming it to you at a much lower Bitrate so that it can buffer correctly. i watched both and both were chop free and clear.




anyway, all this really has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

 

When transferred from the DV tape to the PC, and adding audio, I used Windows Movie maker to save it as .AVI format to keep it as lossless as possible. I wasn't given the option of a bitrate, as it wasn't supposed to use any compression. That is why it is such a large file. Whatever you are downloading from Google is not the original .avi file. They have compressed it for storage on their systems. You can't get the original uploaded file from them.

I've watched the original from the camera on both my monitor and 16:9 widescreen. I then compared it against the .avi file using the home theater PC. The .avi file was just as sharp as the digital image on the tape.

The video shown by google is much more compressed and distorted than the .avi.

 

by telling me it's an AVI file, you're not doing much. there's over 1000 different Video/Audio combinations for it to be considered AVI.

can we just move on please? this is becoming tiresome.