Hi everyone ... hope you're having happy productive summers.

I've been unable to stream video files using the h.264 codec from our  
Quicktime Streaming Server at Swarthmore.  Never had a chance to iron  
out what might be going wrong, so have been using mpeg4 for video  
instead.  It works, but would really like to take advantage of  
smaller file sizes and better quality that h.264 offers.

Here's the process I'm using:

- digitize and encode content using Handbrake

- take the file that was produced to Quicktime Pro and export it as a  
hinted movie

- move that file to the tiger streaming server ... I've tried a test  
server running leopard and it doesn't work either.

- the video fails to play when I try to watch the movie as a stream,  
the audio streams fine.

At every stage the file plays fine if played locally in quicktime.   
The full movie produced a file that was about 1.4 gig ... when hinted  
the file size went to 1.5 gig.  That's significantly smaller than  
I've come to expect using the mpeg 4 codec ... hinting typically  
doubled the file size.  Suspect I'm doing something wrong when  
hinting.  If I look at the properties for the movies, the duration on  
the hinted track is 23 frames instead of the full 2 hour length of  
the file. Why?  Ideas?

Gladly take any suggestions.

Thanks,

- Mike

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Michael Jones
Director,
Language Resource Center
Swarthmore College

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