OT: You OS/X Users...question for ya...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:46:52AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> I'm a bit surprised at you though.  You should know better than to think
> that would be remotely legible.  I did a 2:1 Lanczos3 method shrink-down
> of the 1024x768.  Divide by two in both aspects and you know what I had.
> That's about the best filter you can use for the quantization on the
> resize.  It was pushing the limits of a cleanly legible Anzio, and that was
> with a fairly lossless codec on the final mixdown.  
> 
> The MPEG1 video codec itself is horribly, horribly lossy, with quality
> at or just around VCR quality, and a tendency to block up and pixelise
> around higher intensity light sources, to boot (read, bright characters on
> a black or dark blue screen would be subject to it).  At that resolution,
> well...it wouldn't be anything usable.  That's like bringing a JPEG codec
> to a cartoon convention, man.  Wrong tool for the wrong job.
> 
> The object is to let people see something, not go blind trying.

Oh.  Then you shouldn't be using *video*.

> Anyway...  Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll pass on VCD style
> MPEG1's.  :)

Wasn't clear what you wanted.  You want screenshot slideshows, don't do
them as video at all.

Cheers,
-- jra
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