[Yochanan]

Other than the trailers at the QuickTime site, have any of you ever seen any other sites with a collection of H.264 content? I've been wondering when I'll see some on the torrenting sites, but it's been remarkably quiet. A few tests and examples have shown up here and there, (I especially like Jeff Harell's) but nothing big.

Any one else see anything?

[HHogan]

www.systm.org

www.commandn.tv

[Yochanan]

Thank you! It looks good, even though I've never heard of either of those. Got any more?

[EmC]

I had never heard of www.liveplasma.com (mentioned in one of those videos) Really neat site.

[Yochanan]

That live plasma's one cool site. I saw something like that from a link on channel 9 one time.

Anyone know if they'll be adding more H.264 content to the QuickTime site again? If they wanted to they could, tomorrow, enforce an H.264 mandatory with the Sorenson stuff. I don't know why they wouldn't.

[liam]

EmC thanks for the link to www.liveplasma.com what a really amazing site. I would recommend any music or movie fan give it a whirl. Really original design and pretty hot execution.

[ast3r3x]

...that is flash being abused. Taking up a whole window with a flash program is a bad idea. Make it 600x600, but you have to move around the window to see stuff? Me no likey too much.

[rasmits]

www.greenday.com has their music videos in H.264.

[Yochanan]

Found something here. This was while looking for Common's video "Go!". I can't find that damn thing anywhere in good quality. How do I contact iTunes and request that video?

Go!

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Yochanan How do I contact iTunes and request that video?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

[Yochanan]

Originally Posted by Brad http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

In Brad we trust! Always on top of things. Thanks Brad. I must've just kept missing that link.

I ended up choosing augment genre. In the request box I wrote:

Song: "Go!" Artist(s): Common feat. Kanyé West & John Mayer Album: Be Please augment the genre of music videos by adding the music video "Go!" by Common, to the Music Video section. Also can you find it in your hearts to make it H.264? Preferably around 1-2000kbps

[Yochanan]

Coming soon…

[InactionMan]

Originally Posted by Yochanan Coming soon…

That is going to be freaking sweet. God bless all the British taxpayers for supporting the BBC. (And Apple for probably giving them a huge hand in pimping their new wares.)

[InactionMan]

From archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/Johnn...stituteTeacher


I imagine they'll be adding more h.264 at some point. They always seem to use the latest and greatest.

Edit: Oh god, that was the worst thing ever. There is no reason to click that link.

[Yochanan]

InactionMan,

Well at least you put something up. In addition, a lot of Britons hate the BBC, and the fact that their money is extorted to pay for it. But they still produce some pretty cool stuff.

[Moogs]

That BBC site should be very cool indeed. The LivePlasma thing is a cool concept but it's kind of hard to navigate their bubble-map-thingys sometimes. Too much scrolling.

[InactionMan]

I don't know how I missed this one , it's on the Quicktime site. Downloading now....

[hanyou23]

Originally Posted by InactionMan That is going to be freaking sweet. God bless all the British taxpayers for supporting the BBC. (And Apple for probably giving them a huge hand in pimping their new wares.)

Leave it up to the Brits to be more open minded to use Quicktime than those tight-butt American "Winblowz Media only" corps (and yes, I'm an American ...).

[BlueRabbit]

Here's the MacWorld Boston 1997 keynote in H.264, complete with Bill Gates on the big screen. I'm still downloading, but it should be interesting.

Edit: Whoa! Blast from the past! Back when Apple was in serious trouble, this was probably the best thing that could have happened. A recommended watch for every Mac user, especially Steve's short monologue near the end about the meaning of Apple.

[abrooks]

Originally Posted by BlueRabbit Here's the MacWorld Boston 1997 keynote in H.264, complete with Bill Gates on the big screen. I'm still downloading, but it should be interesting. Edit: Whoa! Blast from the past! Back when Apple was in serious trouble, this was probably the best thing that could have happened. A recommended watch for every Mac user, especially Steve's short monologue near the end about the meaning of Apple.

Very nice link, love that Apple Store video, nothing like a bit of Elvis
:smokey:

[Yochanan]

Okay in the latest QuickTime newsletter they kind of fulfilled my request.

http://www.apple.com/enews/2005/qissue/13/09h5.html

It's not as large as I would've liked, but it's okay. I saved it to my desktop so I could check the settings. I knew from measuring it with my dashboard ruler widget that it was 480x360. When I saved it I "got info"d it and found that it was in H.264/AAC, but it's data rate was 765.12kbps. That's kind of low. It doesn't come anywhere near the music videos they've got in the iTMS, where they average about 1600kbps.

Now that it has appeared somewhere else does this now entirely rule out the possibility for it to come the iTMS?

[Franz Josef]

Thanks, BlueRabbit - great movie and not one I had.

[NosferaDrew]

Here's a little gaming movie that I made.
Edited in FCE then used Sorenson Squeeze to take it from 3.8GB down to about 30MB.
It's 640x480, but .Mac streams it smaller for some reason. I need to figure out how to get around that one.

[Xaqtly]

Out of curiosity, how did you capture that movie?

[NosferaDrew]

Plugged the S-Video out of the graphics card on my PC gaming rig into my DV camera and recorded to that.
It's an easy way of capturing footage without taking up tons of drive space since DV tapes are cheap and provide a good archive solution.

[Yochanan]

They've added new stuff to the HD Gallery: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/

[InactionMan]

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/cornell.html

This one is pretty cool, but the 1080p one made my Mac sad. 11 FPS. Yikes.

[Yochanan]

They've added more stuff from the BBC Motion Gallery to the HD page at QuickTime.

Have they gotten rid of any, or is it just my imagination?

[Eugene]

Originally Posted by BlueRabbit Here's the MacWorld Boston 1997 keynote in H.264, complete with Bill Gates on the big screen. I'm still downloading, but it should be interesting.

Originally Posted by abrooks Very nice link, love that Apple Store video, nothing like a bit of Elvis :smokey:

What's the point though of taking already compressed video and recompressing it...in the case of the Apple Store video anyway. And poor quality video from 1997 is not exactly something I would use to showcase H.264.

[julesstoop]

If the source material is noisy but the encoded material retains an acceptable quality with a high compression rate, it's actually an excellent way to showcase a (any) codec.