[TBA]: h.264 Video Analysis, and Improving TBATV Video Quality

[Greg Marra]

Converting the videos isn't killer. I think I can just borrow a desktop and throw all 100 gigs of video at it and come back a week later.

Flash 9 supports h264 streaming the same way it supports FLV streaming. I haven't tried to do this with the Flash player The Blue Alliance uses, but this would let everyone (who is using Flash 9, at least) get the higher quality streaming videos without significantly increasing the download size.

If we wanted to be really redundant, we could also offer the FLV for people on older systems, particularly because decoding h264 isn't the friendliest thing to do to your processor. This offers a disk space tradeoff though.

I think I will experiment with replacing the FLV streaming videos with h264 versions and do some compatibility testing. If anyone wants to step up and try this out themselves the way Art did, I would love to benefit from your knowledge :-). College keeps me busy