<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Also just for a comparison between the x264 and theora
encodes, the x264 average bitrate is 190kbps with 96kbps audio
(very good quality) and video is almost as good as original DV
at full 25fps. Perhaps there's some magic theora encoding
options but it really just doesn't compete. It's also much
slower at encoding than x264 as it's single threaded...</div>
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It may be negligible, but we could possibly drop the audio bitrate
down to mono 48kbps on the x264. I'm interested to know what the VP8
stuff is like now - its been a year since we last compared VP8 and
x264.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We're only talking 100MB for 1hr 15mins so for x264 we don't really need to save any more space and I really want the good quality audio :)</div><div><br></div><div>
Yes we should do some more testing with VP8, the git version of ffmpeg on the laptop has the VP8 codec support built in so I should be able to do some testing.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="im">We need to have a workshop where we throw the video into Flumotion.
We can define a workflow for Flumotion to do an on-site encode to a
500 kbps stream, and send it off-site to another Flumotion host
which transcodes this 500 kbps stream to other protocols at this bit
rate, and also at a much lower bit rate (100 kbps?), and possibly
even an audio-only stream?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We'd just do on-site encoding to x264 since the laptop is able to do that at approx 4x real-time. That's a 190kbps stream for full quality everything. Off-site we could use Flumotion to re-encode and provide other options if necessary.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm a bit slammed the rest of this week so I will plan to do some VP8 testing next week and take a peek at flumotion.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jason Nicholls</div></div>
<a href="mailto:jason@mindsocket.com.au" target="_blank">jason@mindsocket.com.au</a><br>0430 314 857<br><br>