13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
4:16 p.m.
As a slightly
more helpful remark, if you don't mind I'll download these
and recode as a couple of different formats. Personally I recommend Ogg
Theora, because it's an entirely free as in (beer|speech) format, with
picture quality and compression roughly equivalent to MPEG4.
It is nowhere near equivalent to MPEG4 (disclaimer: I am a video
compression author/nerd). But yes, it is free. But hardly anything
will play it.
If you want cross-platform, there really is no choice other than MPEG
(MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4). I have yet to see convincing arguments for
formats other than those for simple media distribution.
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ 
13 Mar
13 Mar
6:26 p.m.
Ashley Carder wrote:
When I get around to making some more (and better) videos, where I
can actually take my time and do some good stuff, I will post them to
my web site in both MPEG-4(.mp4) and MPEG-1(.mpg). The MPEG-4 seems to
have much better compression than any of the other 5 or 6 formats I've
tried. .WMV seems to be comparable, but is more Microsoft oriented.
Well I better upgrade windows media player --- sigh.
Now, back to my original question....
Are there any particular things that people would like me to video?
My system is a PDP-11/40 with RK05, RL01, RL02, RX01, RX02, VT05,
VT52, VT100, LA36, LA120, ASR33. I also have a couple TU56 units
but have not yet hooked them up to the 11/40.
Playing the the TTY version ... Boy the fans on the PDP-11 is
loud, one can hardly hear the TTY. What hardware is running?
It may be another year before I am in the mood to boot
up my system
and do this kind of thing. I get distracted by lots of other things
this time of year with spring planting, etc.
I just know that it would have been helpful for me to see visuals
of some things back when I was putting my system together.
Ashley
http://www.woffordwitch.com
Thanks for the downloads ...
Only another 24 meg to for the windows media upgrade...
I remember when you could install Windows/95 from floppy.
14 Mar
14 Mar
4:03 a.m.
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 15:26 -0700, woodelf wrote:
Ashley Carder wrote:
Or use VLC. One of the things I've always found odd about Windows Media
Player is that it doesn't really play much media...
Gordon
When I get around to making some more (and better) videos, where I
can actually take my time and do some good stuff, I will post them to
my web site in both MPEG-4(.mp4) and MPEG-1(.mpg). The MPEG-4 seems to
have much better compression than any of the other 5 or 6 formats I've
tried. .WMV seems to be comparable, but is more Microsoft oriented.
Well I better upgrade windows media player --- sigh. 
3:45 a.m.
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Ashley Carder wrote:
Now, back to my original question....
Are there any particular things that people would like me to video?
My system is a PDP-11/40 with RK05, RL01, RL02, RX01, RX02, VT05,
VT52, VT100, LA36, LA120, ASR33. I also have a couple TU56 units
but have not yet hooked them up to the 11/40.
Performing basic system operations like toggling in a bootstrap,
loading and swapping disk packs, etc would be good to document in
full-motion video. Functional minicomputers of this sort are
becoming less and less common, and so more and more people will never
get to see one or see what it was like to run one. If such videos
get made and start floating around the net (dare I suggest a set of
YouTube or Google Video submissions?), more people will get to see
the wonder of these machines that most of us here take for granted.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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