Corran wrote:LittleAtari wrote:derobert wrote:Its coming soon. And the quality is better than boochsack.
While I'm sure that you guys have researched and tested the streaming videos that you plan to have, I just wanted to clear something up. Boochsack quality is not bad.
I think Derobert was basing his opinion on YTs non-HD streams.
I'm not sure if HD here is a typo, but YT has an HD option that is separate from the HQ option:
Running Man on YT HD:
http://tinyurl.com/d42mtrRunning Man on YT HQ:
http://tinyurl.com/dhrpnoI honestly don't expect the Org to try to stream HD, since there isnt much of a point because we have downloads.
For Sayde's video did you resize it prior to uploading to <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73475">boochsack</a>? The original is 720x480 without any aspect ratio flags.
I used the one that he has on indirect link, so I did not resize it. I know that Reflections was resized and had some scripting done on it.
The biggest issue I have with the videos you linked is that the HD streams are 27.34MB and 34.42MB respectively.
I encoded the same videos using the current settings and the encodes were 12.93MB and 13.28MB.
For reference this is what the encodes look like.
[Corran: Videos removed from quote.]
As you can see they are not as good as <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73475">boochsack</a>'s HD quality but they are significantly better than the SD versions. (even though filesize is almost the same as SD versions) Our goal in this in not to have the best, most awesome video streaming quality on the block... It is for preview purposes and if you like the video then you can download the original quality local file.
Org stream:

YT SD:

YT HQ:

Original:

To be accurate, I would have to upload the same file that you used. Is it the one from local? So far though, it seems that it YT's SD is better. I don't know what software you're using, neither am I well versed in streaming video, but I wonder if using the same method of re-encoding the files before giving them to stream to convert would produce better results. As for file sizes, I have no idea how to check a streaming video's size.
It isn't 100% donator only, there will be non-donator perks... maybe not enough to draw users away from <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73475">boochsack</a> but hopefully the perks encourage users to donate to get the full feature set.
I see. I'll just have to wait and see how it goes then.
godix wrote:Alright, apparently randomly clicking somewhere near the start where the tube video had already loaded produced a below standard source image for my example. The second image you did is much better quality than the example I got. I'm not saying this quality isn't 'passable' either, if I still keep and watch videos encoded in 1999 then obvious video quality ain't my primary concern. I was just arguing the tube isn't 'nearly perfect results' as a glance at even your second image will prove.
Which I suppose is rather academic, unless I'm totally off base the org is approaching steaming as kinda like a sample. If you want the full quality video you download it rather than bookmark (or save) the streaming copy. As opposed to the tube where noticeable quality loss is the best you can possibly get.
I understand. Comparing the screenshots, it's not 'nearly perfect' as I had claimed. Since the Org is offering a download along side the streaming video, I guess it does work out okay, but it doesn't seem to be better than SD, but to be sure, I need to upload the same file as Corran).