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[Antony]

Recently, Optus has started its Optus 3G mobile advertising...

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(video in H.264, Streaming, 1 minute)

Enjoy

The video clip is encoded with state-of-the-art video codec H.264, which delivers stunning quality at remarkably low data rates. QuickTime Player 7 (free) is required for watching the video.

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[Don_HH2K]

Why, may I ask, have you started using streaming videos that call QuickTime directly, rather than just posting a file archive that any capable player can read?

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[Pu7o]

Not requiring QuickTime 7 is totally unacceptable, and completely unethical. You, Don_HH2K, shall be hanged over your blasphemous suggestion.

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[annjack]

Thanks for providing this interesting TV ad. It's funny. The mobile phone looks like the model N73 (by Nokia) we have here in Taiwan.

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[Antony]

For users with older version of QuickTime, you can watch the video here.

The video is encoded in Sorenson Video 3 and AAC codec. QuickTime 6 required.

We recommend watching the video embedded in the first post of this thread, as H.264 provides better video quality at a much smaller file size.

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[Pu7o]

The video is encoded in Sorenson Video 3 and AAC codec. QuickTime 6 required.

No, QuickTime 6 is not "required", it plays just fine on VLC.

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[Antony]

Just to complete all 3 major video formats plus the new comer, Flash video. Those videos were prepared two days ago.

RealPlayer video: click here (2.6MB) (*1)

Flash movie: click here (3.6MB) (*2)

someone's beloved Windows Media video format: click here (at shocking 10.1MB file size, worse quality than the video encoded in H.264) (*3)

(*1) the dimension of RealPlayer video is bigger than others, as I was unable to resize it to the same one.

(*2) due to the fact that I do not have control browser window, the movie might not be played at right dimension. Flash movie in [tt]*.swf[/tt].

(*3) simply shocking. However, some certain individuals may have different opinion, as always.

We recommend watching the video embedded in the first post of this thread, as H.264 provides better video quality at a much smaller file size, only 1.7MB

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[Pu7o]

I wonder how well encoded that WMV version was. (What did you encode it with, what bit-rate did you use, etc...?)

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[Don_HH2K]

To note, WMV is not my "beloved".

You encoded the WMV sample using WMV version 7. Not only is WMV7 not a standard, but it's about seven years old. And furthermore, you encoded it at a massive 1.5Mbps, which I can't understand either.

In terms of comparison, the Sorenson 3 sample you provided has a lower framerate, and is only 512kbps. I can't even see your H.264 example, because you refuse to let people running Win64-native browsers watch it.

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[Pu7o]

Just for the hell of it, DivX version, 979kb...

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[Don_HH2K]

Which apparently has an even lower framerate.

Antony, is there any way you can post your video as a DV file or using H.264's Lossless profile, so that we can encode an exact representation of the video?

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[Antony]

Just for the hell of it, DivX version, 979kb...

Where did you get that file from?

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[Pu7o]

Just for the hell of it, DivX version, 979kb...

Where did you get that file from?

I encoded it from your Sorenson Video 3 version with FFmpeg.

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[Antony]

The video is encoded in Sorenson Video 3 and AAC codec. QuickTime 6 required.

No, QuickTime 6 is not "required", it plays just fine on VLC.

QuickTime 6 was required, because I forgot to use an older audio codec.

I was talking "for users with older version of QuickTime", and "QuickTime 6" was the minimum version needed for AAC.

What was your problem?

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[Don_HH2K]

The problem is that it works fine without QuickTime in any form.

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