Hey AV team,<div><br></div><div>Video from last night is now available and linked from website. I haven't announced to the mailing list yet - thought people may want to check it first:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.plug.org.au/events/2012">http://www.plug.org.au/events/2012</a><br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div><br></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>
<div><br></div><div>With more playing around with ffmpeg2theora I can get audio at 78kpbs + video at 420kbps (total ~500kbps) and keep fairly good video but only 12fps, and it's definitely not as good as the x264 encode. So this is what I've updated the streaming script to produce from now on unless someone objects. And we should also see about other streaming servers than icecast to support other containers beside ogg.</div>
<div><br></div><br>Jason Nicholls<br><a href="mailto:jason@mindsocket.com.au" target="_blank">jason@mindsocket.com.au</a><br>0430 314 857<br><br>
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