Comment Bandwidth easier to work with now (Score 1) 75
It recently became much easier to deliver large screen video at moderate bandwidths.
This year we presented a 720-pixel wide video of our online university's virtual graduation ceremony at http://graduation.jonesinternational.edu/2006gradu ation/ceremony.html. In addition to the broadband version you are probably looking at, there is a stream for 56k connections and one for 36K, all are displayed at 720 pixels wide. We were originally going to provide streams higher than 512K, but there wasn't enough visible improvement in quality to make it worthwhile.
We used streaming Flash video using the new On2 codec, which was an amazing combination (Maya and Swift3D were used to generate the virtual auditorium and audience).
It was unbelievable how much bigger we could get for our bandwidth than we could last year, and how much better it looked. I think that the wide screen aspect ratio also helped, because we didn't waste bandwidth on the top and bottom of the video area.
Michael Harris
Manager of Instructional Multimedia
Jones International University
This year we presented a 720-pixel wide video of our online university's virtual graduation ceremony at http://graduation.jonesinternational.edu/2006grad
We used streaming Flash video using the new On2 codec, which was an amazing combination (Maya and Swift3D were used to generate the virtual auditorium and audience).
It was unbelievable how much bigger we could get for our bandwidth than we could last year, and how much better it looked. I think that the wide screen aspect ratio also helped, because we didn't waste bandwidth on the top and bottom of the video area.
Michael Harris
Manager of Instructional Multimedia
Jones International University
