Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:44:32 -0400
Subject: Re: *.mpg


The compression is great!  450 odd K and almost an entire minute of sound
and sight.  Very good Heiko but I can taste the anxiety in it.  The
snowball fight takes on the proportions of ancient warfare.

Even at 450 K it took my cable modem nearly 10 min to download across the
Atlantic.  It got hung up once so the entire exercise took about 20 min.
Which is okay, I am not saying it wasn't worth the time (I let the download
happen and did other things), but it isn't exactly web "content" and cannot
be viewed as a portion of a "online experience".  For this medium to
function properly it must operate quickly and everything must occur online
(my own poetics).

I have done a little digitized video and I have to admit, SNOTESTO is
really well compressed.  450K would download in only a few seconds from
anywhere in North America via cable modem.  The program data spawned my
media player (mplayer.exe) from windows without a hitch.

BRAVO!!!

(maybe we could set up a shadow site someplace in America and see how fast
much faster the download can be)


Heiko Recktenwald wrote:

> If somebody is interested: 57 sec. 160 x 120 very experimental
> "Soundmovie" at
> http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~recktenw/vertigo/snotesto.mpg. I like
> the bass.
>
> Vmpeg17.zip is the player for wintels, the demo can play up to 1 minute
> of sound, well, this is more or less what fits on one of those old
> fashioned floppies... Sparkle or QT4 can play it on Macs (or this
> nicenst little player that could do it without QT on some
> machines........). I think the newer versions of Sparkle support mpg
> audio movies too.
>
> Heiko
>
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