The Way Videos: Codec Test

[Kyle]

Hmmm, I'll try that. If the difference in size is big enough and still yields acceptable results two versions is a possibility.

[Kyle]

You'll all be glad to know I've got Adobe Premiere fully working now and it includes this cool encoding tool which I have succefully used to shrink the fulesize TREMENDOUSLY. 1 minute of video is now a little less than a megabyte. Which means that for The Way Ep1 (which is around 30 minutes) the filesize will be around 30 MB, not much at all. File format is WMV (which usually sucks bigtime but for some reason works well with these videos). All you should need to play the videos is Windows Media Player 9+.

So, no more need for discussions, this is surely as small as I can bring it and should even make DSOK a happy man

[Escreon]

Worked fine for me.

[SpaceBoy2000]

How is the quality in .wmv format? Can we have a small demo?

Oh, and how about distributing the whole collection on BitTorrent? I'd be happy to seed.

[Kyle]

I'll try to find some space to upload it, don't want to bother Lun with it again. It's great quality though, nothing like what you may be used to in low quality wmv clips.

And Bit Torrent was always the planned way of distributing it. I'd like to do different torrent files for different episodes though, so 5 files total. Seeding it would be much appreciated

[Sage Of The Wise]

Yeah, I could seed some, Ive usually got it running anyway. Exept for when my mom comes in and turns off the computer for whatever reason.

[Kyle]

There you go, as promised: http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3FKG ... B4I4ITOF16

Note that this link will expire in 7 days or after 25 downloads. I couldn't find any other fast upload service and didn't want to register anywhere just for this. I ask that you only download it once so the maximum amount of people can see it. In case there are more than 25 interested people I'll upload it again and provide a new link.

This clip is over 1 minute long and is only 800 kb. Yay! You should also get a better picture of the image and sound quality now.

[Forerunner]

ohhhh! ohhhhhh! ohhhhhhh!!! me in ze top 25!!!

...OMG does that mean that if I download it 25 times I keep the joy for myself!!!!!!!

Nah, I wouldn't even try it. But hey it looks pretty damn good. Just one bit... you know the bit where they walk into the cave then the screen shifts up and you see the 'shadow'. Well maybe it's just my computer but it was too dark for me to see the 'shadow'.
....or maybe there isn't a shadow at all.... I cant remember... need to replay episode1.

[Belthazar]

very nice job kyle it looks great so far keep up the good work.

[Kyle]

There's a shadow there alright, but it's true that he's a bit hard to see. The brightness in the game is probably slightly higher than the video compressor's brightness. On original size I need to look closely to see him, but on maximized size it's easy to spot.

I'm still editing everything, but I have a bit less time on my hands now, due to college which started last week (getting master degree in computer science, pretty damn hard).

[Sage Of The Wise]

Woah, thats awesome. The picture quality is almost perfect. I can't wait for this to came out.

[Shindy]

wait is there some place where his videos / samples are stored? can someone give me url?

or is it not out yet? sage where are u getting "great quality" from?

[Sage Of The Wise]

From the link he just posted.

Now I have a problem, ever since I watched that video, wmp hasn't worked at all, it freezes the second I try to play somthing. Anyone know whats wrong?

[DSOK]

Woah, thats awesome.

Now everybody here is copying Lun's misspellings, ey?

[Flibbo]

Now everybody here is copying Lun's misspellings, ey?

i've already started saying Jaa Mata at the end of conversations