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Old 07-10-2008, 11:26 PM
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Quality and Quantity
Originally Posted by KOC View Post
Yes as Paul said, my DVD player will not play U.S. DVDs and that's why I always perfer the streaming paypal method...

But I know that some DVD players can make the deal, I will look into it.
We've already made the downloadable videos and the challenge was the sheer size and quality. There is over 3 hours of instruction, all shot by a professional camera crew at very high quality. We spent several man-weeks working them over. We tried DivX, Windows Media and Quicktime. DivX was great but the files were large along with some trouble in getting codecs set up. We settled on Windows Media for the web version.

In order to preserve as much quality as possible from the original videos, the web version files are very large and broken into approximately 40 video segments or chapters. In other words, a ton of content that is such good quality, you won't want to stream it unless you have a very high bandwidth internet connection, even then it will pause to buffer the video.

So the only reasonable choice is to download each chapter to your computer and save it there. Around 6GB in total of video. The better choice is DVD which provides compact, easily to distribute, easy to store, and excellent quality medium. There is also a menu system for quickly accessing DVD chapters.

The quality of the DVD version is at least double or triple the web version. There's just no other way to do it without making the web videos over 20GB which would take days to download.

DVD is the best way to go.
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