Different Files... Different Players


I've been working on a custom sized video inset for the main page of my
website... replacing a thick horizontal black line with a custom video sized
at 800x24 pixels...

I started down the path of making it a movie... but then thought a story
would be smaller and open quicker... my rule of thumb being that story files
are only 10% the size of movies. This exercise is giving me some things to
think about, and I'd appreciate any of your comments....

Here are 4 files... a Photo Story 3 file that is the smallest file size I
can make it without taking too much of a quality hit, and then 3 movies made
in MM2 from a high quality story (580K file size for a 7 second story). All
are made by using custom profiles to make a video file of 800x24 pixel
dimensions.

http://www.papajohn.org/Newsletters/90-PhotoStory3.wmv - 202KB
http://www.papajohn.org/Newsletters/90-MM2-V7.wmv - 76 KB
http://www.papajohn.org/Newsletters/90-MM2-V8.wmv - 73 KB
http://www.papajohn.org/Newsletters/90-MM2-V9-PoorQuality.wmv - 51 KB

Here are the tradeoffs I'm seeing when viewing the website page on my
computers...

The PS3 file looks good on all of my systems, but won't be visible on Macs
and Firefox browsers... and the file size is 3 to 4 times larger than the
movies....

The WMV V7 and V8 movie files look good on my Windows 98 and XP computers,
but don't play on my Vista system. On Vista they download and sit there as a
big black bar.

The WMV V9 movie file plays on all of my systems, including Vista.... but
the quality took such a nosedive that it's not suitable for use.

At the moment, the website page is using the WMV-V8 movie file... I'm taking
the hit with Vista and hoping it'll work on other systems.

About viewing these files in players.... the PS3 story shows correctly
proportioned in WMP10 and in Vista's WMP11.... the movies play distorted to
standard 4:3 aspect ratio in WMP10 in XP, and look fine in WMP11 in Vista.

I'd appreciate any and all feedback about....

- does the embedded WMV8 movie file on the main page of my website...
http://www.papajohn.org ... play in your browser? what system and browser
are they?
- do the story and movie files play in your players?
- do they play with the right aspect ratio, or are they mis-shaped to suit?

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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website - http://www.papajohn.org
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Who and why?....
    ... And I used Windows Movie ... of course to make the video. ... Out of curiosity what software did you use to create the website and to ... browser squeeze it down into a 400 pixel embedded player on your web ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker)
  • Re: Who and why?....
    ... of course to make the video. ... Out of curiosity what software did you use to create the website and to put ... the movie you saved in Movie Maker is 640x480... ... or if you prefer the 400 pixel size, save the movie at that size instead ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker)
  • Re: Who and why?....
    ... And I used Windows Movie ... of course to make the video. ... Out of curiosity what software did you use to create the website and to ... browser squeeze it down into a 400 pixel embedded player on your web ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker)
  • Re: burning more that one movie to a DVD
    ... When your done creating your movie click on save to my computer in the task ... If you want to create a specific filesize for your website ... largest size you want the final video to be. ... Do I have to save them in a smaller format? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker)
  • Re: Different Files... Different Players
    ... black line with a custom video sized at 800x24 pixels... ... I started down the path of making it a movie... ... website page on my computers... ... but don't play on my Vista system. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker)