[Xerte-dev] Re: Video playback quality in html5 LOs.

[David Goodwin]

On 15/05/14 12:56, Julian Tenney wrote:
> Yes, that's why an flv snuck through: the door is open to flv for those still using the flash runtime.But we should get to a point when Flash is dead to us soon.
>
> If you upload high quality video, it will play back high quality as things stand. If you upload poor quality, it doesn't matter how you re-encode it, it will remain poor quality.
>

Yes.

I was planning to upgrade to Hollywood OS next year for the infinite 
magnification and enhancement capabilities.

> If you automagically encode it to different formats, you have to make some big assumptions and there are trade-offs between quality and bandwidth.

Yes. But at least it'd work. I had the impression that the organisation 
produced .flv videos by default - so transcoding to .mp4 would be useful 
to them.

The existing Javascript code attempts to look for an .mp4 to go with an 
.flv, so we'll just write something simple to create a .mp4 if an .flv 
exists with no partner .mp4.



David.


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