Comments on: Apologies for news feed outage today http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/ Philip Hodgetts' random thoughts and items of interest on where the industry is at, and where it might be going today and into the future. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:10:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Philip http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-10787 Philip Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:45:27 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-10787 Hi Peter The original problem got resolved. We've been chasing down another issue where some people experience an incomplete download of the BuZZ show files. We thought it had been cured but we had another report this week. So we're going to move all the media files for the BuZZ audio over to Dreamhost where we also have an account. MT have been helplful in trying to track down the cause of the incomplete download but really need to be able to track a "case" to an IP address and time. Then they could see what happened in their logs. Mostly pretty helpful and the Grid has really settled down in the last 5-6 weeks. Philip Hi Peter

The original problem got resolved. We’ve been chasing down another issue where some people experience an incomplete download of the BuZZ show files.

We thought it had been cured but we had another report this week. So we’re going to move all the media files for the BuZZ audio over to Dreamhost where we also have an account.

MT have been helplful in trying to track down the cause of the incomplete download but really need to be able to track a “case” to an IP address and time. Then they could see what happened in their logs.

Mostly pretty helpful and the Grid has really settled down in the last 5-6 weeks.

Philip

]]> By: Peter Ralph http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-10786 Peter Ralph Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:27:24 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-10786 Philip - did the problem with the gridservers get sorted? I've been with mt for years just switched to the gridservers two weeks ago...no problems so far. Philip - did the problem with the gridservers get sorted? I’ve been with mt for years just switched to the gridservers two weeks ago…no problems so far.

]]> By: Philip http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-9738 Philip Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:21:58 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-9738 This may be a case of adjusting your expectations to reality :). That is Sorenson Sparke/Flash 7 that YouTube use and they blow it up after compressing it down to 320 x 240. So, if you're already sending them the high quality "master" as per my notes then that's probably the best you can expect. The parts that are really breaking up are the wireframe animations and that's to be expected - those frames are going to be very, very hard to encode. Usually you could use 2 pass VBR and allocate some data from the easier-to-encode parts of the video (which did come out well on YouTube) to these more difficult frames. Unfortunately YouTube does not use 2 Pass VBR and that's where the problem is coming for your material. YouTube is not going to give a better result than this, unless they improved the codec to Flash 8/9 (On2 VP6) and did 2 Pass VBR encoding. There are no announced plans for any change to YouTube's encoding so this is pretty much as good as it will be for the immediate future. Your best solution would be to replace the wireframe animation with something a little more "encoding" friendly. Philip This may be a case of adjusting your expectations to reality :). That is Sorenson Sparke/Flash 7 that YouTube use and they blow it up after compressing it down to 320 x 240. So, if you’re already sending them the high quality “master” as per my notes then that’s probably the best you can expect.

The parts that are really breaking up are the wireframe animations and that’s to be expected - those frames are going to be very, very hard to encode. Usually you could use 2 pass VBR and allocate some data from the easier-to-encode parts of the video (which did come out well on YouTube) to these more difficult frames. Unfortunately YouTube does not use 2 Pass VBR and that’s where the problem is coming for your material.

YouTube is not going to give a better result than this, unless they improved the codec to Flash 8/9 (On2 VP6) and did 2 Pass VBR encoding. There are no announced plans for any change to YouTube’s encoding so this is pretty much as good as it will be for the immediate future.

Your best solution would be to replace the wireframe animation with something a little more “encoding” friendly.

Philip

]]> By: Greg http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-9737 Greg Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:10:45 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2007/03/13/apologies-for-news-feed-outage-today/#comment-9737 Hey Phillip, Every time I upload to youtube my video looks like crap, so I was very excited to read and follow your advice. I did everything you recommended and.... still looks like crap. My piece was shot on a panasonic dvx100a at 24p mode, cut on fcp hd 4.5 and is 1:55 long. Here it is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwB8Dw0gpW4 Here it is on .mac http://web.mac.com/modop/iWeb/Site%206/Movie.html I'd be glad to buy your download if you can help me. Thanks! Greg Hey Phillip,

Every time I upload to youtube my video looks like
crap, so I was very excited to read and follow your
advice. I did everything you recommended and…. still
looks like crap. My piece was shot on a panasonic
dvx100a at 24p mode, cut on fcp hd 4.5 and is 1:55
long.

Here it is on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwB8Dw0gpW4

Here it is on .mac
http://web.mac.com/modop/iWeb/Site%206/Movie.html

I’d be glad to buy your download if you can help me.
Thanks!
Greg

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