6-29-07 Google Video
Well, after messing around with the Google Video website for a few days, it's much to my chagrin that I discovered their streaming framesize turns out to be the same as YouTube... And then they default the output stream to play that shrunk-down size (that they convert to no matter what framesize you upload) DOUBLED UP again!
It really makes no sense to me that they put everything in that 640 x 480 box, when everything that's uploaded to them is stored for streaming in 320 x 240 framesize...
I spent a lot of time uploading the same clip, formatted to 640 x 480 with all sorts of different compression settings, only to have every iteration I tried look absolutely terrible.
The only good thing about Google Video is that uploading has been very easy (compared to YouTube).
In the end, the ability to embed the video here on either blog is what really matters. Below is the Google Video embedding result...
...and the YouTube embedding result...
It really makes no sense to me that they put everything in that 640 x 480 box, when everything that's uploaded to them is stored for streaming in 320 x 240 framesize...
I spent a lot of time uploading the same clip, formatted to 640 x 480 with all sorts of different compression settings, only to have every iteration I tried look absolutely terrible.
The only good thing about Google Video is that uploading has been very easy (compared to YouTube).
In the end, the ability to embed the video here on either blog is what really matters. Below is the Google Video embedding result...
...and the YouTube embedding result...
posted by Jeff Barnard at 7:39 PM
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