Quicktime
See
http://webhelp.ucs.ed.ac.uk/services/media/quicktime.html
Encoding limits (as at March 2007): Stand-alone audio streams must
have a maximum encode rate of 64Kbps, for speech based material, an
encode of 32Kbps is usually sufficient. Standalone video streams must
have a maximum encode rate, **including audio** of 350Kbps. UCS may
revise these limits once we have had time to evaluate the effect of
these limits in use for some time.
MPEG4 Video
MPEG4 Mono 44.1kHz Audio
320x240
Prepare for Internet Streaming
Progressive Medium
15 fps?
Prepared for Cable/ADSL speeds (approx. 350kps)
Alan Ordway Instructions:
Use DV to tape.
Import into Final Cut and edit
Export as a Final Cut movie
Open exported file with Sorenson Squeeze
Select MP4 for the output type and Progressive Medium
After the .mp4 file is produced I open it in QuickTime Player Pro
Select export Movie to QuickTime Movie
Click options and uncheck Video and Sound, only Prepare for Internet Streaming should be checked
That will produce a .mov file that will use mpeg-4 for the
compression and can be a fast start progressive download from a web
server.
Now I did one other thing so that the Quicktime Player is launched
instead of trying to play the movie in the web browser. I created a
.qtl file.
For example, for your video I created all the above and saved it as
tateLecture.mov. I put that up on the web server. I then created a
text file called tateLecture.qtl. That file contains a ?quicktime
directive:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?quicktime type=application/x-quicktime-media-link?>
<embed src="rtsp://boombox.ucs.ed.ac.uk:554/smilcourse/sample.mov"
autoplay="true" />
and that is the file that is linked to on the web page. Only Quicktime
player has the .qtl extension registered and that will do a fast
download of the file which the Quicktime Player can then use to get
the actual .mov file. The reason for doing this is that Windows Media
Player and Real Player sometimes hijack the .mov extension and then it
just looks like the .mov is broken when it really isn't.