WTF? Full-screen streaming vid on a 756kb line? • Non-Gaming • Film • Eurogamer.net

phAge 9 Oct 2005 14:35:24 25,487 posts
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Found this 9-minute screener of Serenity - and amazingly it runs smoothly at an OK (medium) res on my 756kb line. What gives?

oceanmotion 9 Oct 2005 14:39:33 17,358 posts
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Yea, I wish more sites used that. Its amazing quality.

bainbrge 9 Oct 2005 16:51:56 1,687 posts
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very impressive - what codecs do they use?

phAge 9 Oct 2005 17:06:59 25,487 posts
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Dunno. Looks pretty great - and on the high-setting (which only stutters SLIGHTLY and infrequently) it looks bloody excellent. Wouldn't mind seeing a full-length film on that - and on a 756kb line!

Edited by phAge at 17:07:54 09-10-2005

StixxUK 9 Oct 2005 17:33:57 8,755 posts
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That is bloody nice... Isn't it pretty much an advert for that vividas program or codec or whatever it is?

Whatever, more trailers and video clips using this codec please!

mrharvest 9 Oct 2005 18:21:10 5,718 posts
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Looked a bit crap on my 10mbit line.

Deleted user 9 October 2005 19:38:24

1mb line here and high quality no hicup shit. WOW..And..ive never heard of this program either..looks amazing and ive been hoping for something to fill the gap since Babylon5 ended.

lost_soul 9 Oct 2005 20:04:58 9,372 posts
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EvilGenius wrote:
..And..ive never heard of this program either..

It's a film.

alcolepone 9 Oct 2005 21:15:01 52 posts
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woooo, thats impressive, online tv soon

phAge 9 Oct 2005 22:07:45 25,487 posts
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This is some crazy shit - just visited Vividas.com, where they've got loads more streaming stuff.

Here's a couple of Jaguar ads. Why the hell do we have to wait eons for a crappy 480x320 IGN-vid to download when technology like this is available?!?

Freek 9 Oct 2005 22:31:45 7,682 posts
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phAge wrote:
This is some crazy shit - just visited Vividas.com, where they've got loads more streaming stuff.

Here's a couple of Jaguar ads. Why the hell do we have to wait eons for a crappy 480x320 IGN-vid to download when technology like this is available?!?

Bandwith most likely, we have nice fast broadband connections but to provide high quality video free of charge to a large audiance is probably too expensive for all but a few sites and promotions.

Edited by Freek at 22:34:10 09-10-2005

terminalterror 9 Oct 2005 23:17:02 18,932 posts
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Freek wrote:

phAge wrote:
This is some crazy shit - just visited Vividas.com, where they've got loads more streaming stuff.

Here's a couple of Jaguar ads. Why the hell do we have to wait eons for a crappy 480x320 IGN-vid to download when technology like this is available?!?

Bandwith most likely, we have nice fast broadband connections but to provide high quality video free of charge to a large audiance is probably too expensive for all but a few sites and promotions.

But some websites have that sort of bandwidth for streaming media (like Gamespot or Gametrailers, I'm sure there must be others) and that looks a hell of a lot better than a streaming WMV.

Freek 9 Oct 2005 23:31:46 7,682 posts
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They've certainly got the videos but they can barely keep up with demand. Gametrailers espcailly is really slow allot of the time and some videos go down completly when new footage apears.

The-Old-Bill 9 Oct 2005 23:45:12 5,101 posts
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That's pretty damn cool.

reflux 10 Oct 2005 11:02:25 1,804 posts
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Well. It's just stretched full screen and probably MPEG4 of some sort like all other modern codecs. The streaming works ok, but not very unlike Quicktime or Windows Media really (they don't pre-buffer though so there's hardly any start-up delay).

The source is 24 fps film and that's MUCH easier to compress well than video. Why? Because it's got a progressive image, film has shorter focus depth than video -> less details, the image is softer and the colours often a but muted.

Feed this technology badly filmed video (as on any videogame site) and it will look like crap too.

saysomething 11 Oct 2005 01:00:09 1,245 posts
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Whatever. This is excellent quality.

My conn is a bit above 756 kbit, and I haven't seen nice streaming like this in a long tme.

Not exactly dvd-quality, but pretty close to divx.

Furbs 14 Jun 2007 22:45:51 45,740 posts
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dravenclarke wrote:
2mbit line here, ran the whole thing on high with no hicups

i was sat back in my chair a bit away from the screen and it was much like watching a dvd!. it looks a pretty good film to, anyone know when its coming out?, or is it already?

Oh man, silentbob is gonna open a can of whoopass up on you for a comment like that

V. impressive. As somone who knew nothing about Firefly before seeing this, am I likely to enjoy the film btw?

Edit: NVM, got a good impression from the proper thread.

Edited by Furbs at 01:32:44 10-10-2005