Mission Improbable redone

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 1:10 pm

I encoded it at about 1500 kbps :\ since I thought that was what I'd done the xvid encode at, expecting it to be like 100mb. I could make it like as small as the rm version but it would look like crap :\ alright I'll shoot for 70mb

Anyway I'm stuck in the mud with this danny's hosting is full mine is dead and I havent forced klinky to let me use his yet.
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damnit next time I'll get the video up before I make a thread about it :x

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:01 pm

Don't worry about hosting sucksing right now.. there's a big internet attack going on. Some kind of worm is going around and hitting MS SQL servers.

marvin · Post by **marvin** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:11 pm

RadicalEd0 wrote:I encoded it at about 1500 kbps :\ since I thought that was what I'd done the xvid encode at, expecting it to be like 100mb. I could make it like as small as the rm version but it would look like crap :\

Why not lower the resolution for smaller file sizes? (320x240 is less than half of 512x384, and will thus look just as good (regarding artifacting) at less than half the bitrate..)

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:23 pm

thing is the fx and intro/bumpers of MI require a relatively high res :\
that and IMO 512x384 is even too low for most videos but :\ thats just me

marvin · Post by **marvin** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:53 pm

RadicalEd0 wrote:thing is the fx and intro/bumpers of MI require a relatively high res :\
that and IMO 512x384 is even too low for most videos but :\ thats just me

I just tried playing it with "mplayer -fs -vop scale=320:240", that is full screen after scaling it to 320x240. Sure it looks worse, but I can still read the text. And with a better scaler (one that isn't optimized for speed..) I'm sure it could look quite decent. Certainly better than encoding it to 50MB without scaling it, no matter what codec you use. (RM might avoid artifacting better than most other codecs, but it drops frames instead. I would expect the sequence with every 3rd frame inverted looks quite odd in the RM version..)

In an ideal world all videos would be in some enormous res without any artifacting and download in 3 seconds, but in the real world I think a low res is better than a lot of artifacting, or too huge a file.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:14 pm

well Real9 barely ever drops frames in my experience, only at low low bitrates. At 800kbps it does more than fine. I'll try resizing to 448x336 just for the heck of it, but I doubt it'll be much of an improvement over the 512x384 version :\

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:45 pm

Finally got them hosted somewhere. Thanks in a big way to CArnesen for volunteering this FTP server. Access the originally mentioned RealVideo version (50mb) and XviD version (102mb) here:

Address: dsl.darkstarpro.com
User: mission
Password: improbable

The rules:
1 Connection per IP Address, maximum 5 users at a time. Connections that are idle for more than 1 minute will be booted, and anyone that thinks that when a server is full they can keep trying to connect every 5 seconds should tread lightly.

Its a good hold over until my friend finally gets his crappy server fixed, just be patient with the downloading :\ and enjoy.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:19 am

ErMaC wrote:How can I get codec only RealVideo codecs. I have WMPClassic but I still refuse to install realplayer.

http://www.formidable.firstream.net/mod ... tit&lid=41

install this single dll and you should be able to playback rm content in mpc, no realone, no spyware, nothing

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:21 am

err not a single dll but a set of them, whatever :\

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:57 pm

HO :O

server back, MI hosted

http://digitalinsanity.ath.cx/~tab/Miss ... bable.html

thanks again to CArnesen for temporarily hosting em

get em while they're hot! The definitive version of Mission Improbable