- needs Real Player.
Not really a holiday, but an excuse for me to try out the Matrox RT2500 video capture card in the new PC. It POURED with rain most of the day, and this made shooting video through the streaming windows less than perfect.
The London Eye is well worth a visit - great views (when the weather is right).
Anyway, here is three and a bit minutes of wobbly streaming video, totalling about 2Mb. I decided to use RealVideo, since it seemed to give the best quality at low transfer speeds. Quality at 56k was dire - unwatchable, whether Quicktime, RealVideo or Windows Streaming format. This clip, at 360x288, is quite large (the default size of 172 by something or other was completely indecipherable), is based on ISDN2 connection speed, but has the audio quality pegged back a bit, and all the optimisation settings turned on. This gives just-about-acceptable quality at 80k - sorry, if you have a 56k modem, you'll have to wait at times while the clip is buffered. It plays well, without interruption, over the corporate network internet connection:
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