madbunny wrote:Sure, I'd love to see HDrez videos, but I can see how that might not happen anytime soon.
Well, the first problem is a lack of anime being broadcast or otherwise distributed in HDTV.
SuperFusion wrote:You have the speed to download huge files within seconds, what the hell do you care if the filesize is large even though the compression could've been better.
Indeed! What the hell do I care? More importantly, what incentive is there for me to care? It's your connection, not mine, and I'm not losing anything vital over your refusal to watch anything I make.
Facetiousness aside, I
do think that it is important to maximize compression, if only for personal pride -- but only at minimal cost to video quality. There is no reason why I should have to settle for evident macroblocking and mosquito noise in the final product after having invested so much time getting
rid of that junk.
I, as a 56k'er, knows how long it takes to download files that are 70mbs. While you only lose, what, 30 seconds of your life downloading that file? We lose hours.
Is your life so serially structured that you simply cannot do other things while your computer is downloading a large file?
the least you can do is show courtesy to the members who have slow internet connections and make your filesize reasonable. (ie)A 3 minute AMV shouldn't be 60mbs.
This is where we can throw another factor into the quality/size problem.
I'll illustrate by way of anecdote, since it's easiest for me...
I know it is possible to achieve significant size savings with little to no visible degradation in quality by using contemporary video codecs: H.264 implementations, for example, can do quite a number.
The problem is that nobody wants to download the codecs to make this distribution scheme work. Everyone wants to use the same old thing.
So that is the problem. I'd rather not distribute videos that look like crap to
anyone, but I'd still like to keep size reasonable. Contemporary compression techniques offer a way to achieve the best of both worlds, but few people have the ability and/or knowledge to play back such material.
Hmm.
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