Category Archives: Video and Audio

On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:25 PM, David Paul Vallett wrote: So I want to run a 2-4 minute Horizon session (i.e. teach a demo class) with afew ‘fake’ students logged on.While I’m doing this, I want to run a … Continue reading →

Bruce Duncan (bduncan) had come by CMD last week to inquire about converting DVD to web streaming file. Turns out project original still with video production people, Bruce had producer call me for export details, which I provided.

Raced PowerBook versus Tablet, using QuickTime Player Pro as a vehicle. Exported the same  11.7 MB 3 minute (Sorenson) movie as V ideo for iPod. Mac took 9 minutes, PC took 12.

Finalized my SMIL/php script, once and for all. Ultimate results seen here. Click on either image to zoom.

Ralph Olberg called and asked about virtual tours, cubic VR style. Some Free/Cheap software possibilities can be found here. Most everything seems to be based on "Pano Tools."     http://panotools.sourceforge.net/ Commercial tools:     http://www.easypano.com/index.html    http://www.panoscan.com/    http://www.kaidan.com/ From what I can … Continue reading →

Steve forwarded message from Mutsumi Matsubara Corson I posted katakana quick movies on my weblog this weekend. I switched ppt files to mov files.  Most of them turned out just fine, but a couple of them have dark spots like … Continue reading →

OK, now I have a windows laptop. Now I look at my DavisCam cool QuickTime images on Widows, but on Depot machines with QuickTime 6. Click on image, opens in QuickTime player. Perfect. Download and install on my new windows … Continue reading →

Helped freshman (and SKIVT-L personality) Allen Taylor export and save to web his 24 minute magnum opus.

Diddled with the image settings and FTP settings, trying to improve both image quality and frame rate. Near impossible. These cameras are slower than the Axis cameras, and can’t handle capture and FTP fast enough to create semblance of motion. … Continue reading →

It is the nature of most webcams that they capture and save to disk still images as JPEG files. The basic problem: how do you display a sequence of these JPEG stills successively to suggest to the viewer live video … Continue reading →