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Chapter 8:

WMV

"I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."

- Steve Ballmer, April 2006

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Страница 1: ...VisualHub Users Guide By Tyler Loch Fearless Leader Techspansion LLC Release 1 22 2 26 07...

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Страница 3: ...Chapter 6 AVI 17 Chapter 7 MP4 19 Chapter 8 WMV 21 Chapter 9 MPEG 23 Chapter 10 Flash 26 Chapter 11 Advanced 28 Chapter 12 Xgrid 30 Chapter 13 Tidbits 33 Chapter 14 Troubleshooting 35 Chapter 15 Appen...

Страница 4: ...Chapter 1 Crash Course This readout tells you where you re going this one tells you where you are this one tells you where you were Dr Emmett L Brown 4...

Страница 5: ...and don t need to be changed There is a chapter on each video format that explains every setting in detail VisualHub is as easy or complex as you want it to be You want more control Start changing th...

Страница 6: ...ter 2 iTunes You know our next big step is we want it to make toast I want to brown my bagels when I m listening to my music And we re toying with refrigeration too Steve Jobs on video iPods April 200...

Страница 7: ...with the iPod Quality If visual quality isn t as important as just getting the message across you can set the quality slider to Low or Tiny If the video demands the absolute best quality possible choo...

Страница 8: ...pter 3 PSP This is the design that we came up with There may be people that complain about its usability but that s something which users and game software developers will have to adapt to Ken Kutarag...

Страница 9: ...y has its advantages and disadvantages Personally I prefer black bars on the sides so the video doesn t look squished Widescreen aspects such as 16 9 high definition TV shows nearly all movies can be...

Страница 10: ...mory stick will show up in Finder 2 If a folder named MP_ROOT does not exist on your memory stick create one 3 Open the MP_ROOT folder If folders named 100MNV01 and 100ANV01 do not exist in this folde...

Страница 11: ...Chapter 4 DV and it s indestructible WHAM WHAM WHAM aww I broke some of the shielding Apple Spokesperson on FireWire at MUG meeting 1997 11...

Страница 12: ...ase Alternating Line and as expected from the title tells you absolutely nothing helpful leaving you lost and confused It s the format used in the rest of the world including Europe Asia Africa Austra...

Страница 13: ...completed videos from VisualHub can be dropped in the Media folder seen inside your iMovie project s folder 4 5 Open iMovie again You will be warned about a foreign video in the iMovie trash View Tras...

Страница 14: ...was films Jack Valenti May 2003 I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone Jack Valenti 1982 In the digital...

Страница 15: ...and northwest South America PAL stands for Phase Alternating Line and as expected from the title tells you absolutely nothing helpful leaving you lost and confused It s the format used in the rest of...

Страница 16: ...ation based on video duration and encode at the full DVD resolution no matter how low the quality may be Dual Layer This changes all the quality equations to use nearly double the bitrate in order to...

Страница 17: ...Chapter 6 AVI Please spell DivX correctly Capital D lower case iv capital X and do not forget the eye blinking smiley Gej 17...

Страница 18: ...original video By checking this box VisualHub will constrain the video to 320 pixels across scaling proportionally 320x240 is a standard video resolution for medium quality Internet distribution Qual...

Страница 19: ...Chapter 7 MP4 In this world of my codec is better than yours this codec is better Frank Casanova 2004 19...

Страница 20: ...he codec This setting may take over 5 times as much space as Standard but will look nominally better The 56K setting will create a file that can stream in realtime over a 56K modem H 264 Encoding H 26...

Страница 21: ...Chapter 8 WMV I ve got my kids brainwashed You don t use Google and you don t use an iPod Steve Ballmer April 2006 21...

Страница 22: ...to Low If the video demands the best quality possible choose High or Go Nuts Go Nuts sets a data rate near the maximum attainable quality of the codec This setting may take over 5 times as much space...

Страница 23: ...data or the difference between this block and the close match are quantized which means that you divide them by some value to drop bits off the bottom end Hopefully many of the coefficients will then...

Страница 24: ...elpful leaving you lost and confused It s the format used in the rest of the world including Europe Asia Africa Australia and most of South America People in Antarctica are too cold to watch TV Consul...

Страница 25: ...rming to the specifications of the TiVo Series 2 DVR TiVos use an MPEG2 derived format Files created by a TiVo unit are encrypted to only work on specific devices Standard MPEG 2 videos formatted spec...

Страница 26: ...Chapter 10 Flash People are all the time asking me Mike how do you do those stupid voices for your dumb animal characters and I say I m Mike Matt does the voices Mike Chapman 26...

Страница 27: ...olution for medium quality Internet distribution Quality If visual quality isn t as important as just getting the message across you can set the quality slider to Low If the video demands the absolute...

Страница 28: ...Chapter 11 Advanced We knock them into little pockets with sticks and we got higher numbers too The Tick on The Infinity Ball 28...

Страница 29: ...culate a Bitrate constrained to n megabytes based on the reported running time of each video Useful with the Two Pass option Two Pass Will take a quick overview pass at a video to determine which part...

Страница 30: ...Chapter 12 Xgrid The Xgrid Console has an intuitive Aqua interface that makes it easy to execute UNIX commands Xgrid Technology Preview PR January 2004 30...

Страница 31: ...ect the use of that computer Xgrid processes always run at very low priority A Controller can also be an Agent to itself You ll see later how that can be a very good thing When you start an Xgrid enab...

Страница 32: ...ocessing power will be left over for video conversion Network Throughput It s strongly recommended that the Controller and all Agents be connected via a wired network Each Agent must receive the entir...

Страница 33: ...Chapter 13 Tidbits But the most important rule the rule you can never forget no matter how much he cries or how much he begs never never feed him after midnight Got it Gremlins 1984 33...

Страница 34: ...ents of the folder listed in the Save To field If blank this will open the folder containing the last converted file Quit VisualHub Self explanatory Set Computer to Sleep Will put the computer into Sl...

Страница 35: ...Chapter 14 Troubleshooting Son you tried your hardest and failed miserably The lesson is Never try Homer J Simpson 35...

Страница 36: ...a DV camera or certain DVD footage may demonstrate interlacing If your video has these lines Click the Deinterlace checkbox on the Advanced panel How can I speed up VisualHub 1 Hide the VisualHub wind...

Страница 37: ...Chapter 15 Appendix But what I d really like to do is drive a flaming bus through a wall of TVs with a stick of dynamite strapped to my head Pinky Rocko s Modern Life 37...

Страница 38: ...vermiform appendix 38...

Страница 39: ...Cheat Codes The arcade version of Gradius is really difficult right I never played it that much and there was no way I could finish the game so I inserted the so called Konami code laughs Kazuhisa Ha...

Страница 40: ...actor 0 71428572 deblockalpha 1 deblockbeta 1 Encode only a specific duration in seconds t n Start encoding n seconds into the video file ss n Make a mp4 file compatible with both the iPod AND PSP For...

Страница 41: ...always match so there are several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries even though both encoding and decoding are supported for example the h263 decoder corresponds...

Страница 42: ...2 MPEG 4 DivX XviD etc MSMPEG4 WMV7 WMV8 partial WMV9 H 263 H 264 Flash Video 6 7 Sorenson Spark Flash Video 8 VP62 MotionJPEG DV HDV Cinepak Legacy RealVideo RV20 Ogg Theora Snow Indeo 2 3 Many other...

Страница 43: ...Appendix C Credits and Other Info 43...

Страница 44: ...the terms of this license you must uninstall and delete the software from your computer All rights and privileges are reserved except as explicitly defined in this document VisualHub s license allows...

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