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improved h.264 derivatives!
We have thoroughly tested a newer and simpler way to create h.264 derivatives! Changes you’ll notice: More pixels! previously 320 x 240 goes to 640 x 480 pixels Slightly higher video bitrate — from about 512kb/s to … Continue reading
Posted in Technical, Video Archive
Tagged derivatives, ffmpeg, h.264, movies, video, x264
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better mp4 (h.264) derivatives at archive.org!
Late last week, we pushed live a new video deriving technique, as well as in the process updated our audio/video file reader, ffmpeg. New items will benefit from this newer method, and prior items can be re-derived by users if … Continue reading
Posted in Technical, Video Archive
Tagged derivatives, ffmpeg, h.264, movies, video, x264
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archive.org supports the new [video] HTML tag!
We now support the new HTML tag when viewing movies from our site. You’ll need Firefox v3.5+ (full or beta release) or Safari v4+ for us to show you a “try the new tag” section under the “click to play” video … Continue reading
movie thumbnails can jump to scene in video
We are now rolling out a “beta” feature where users can click on the thumbnails for a given video (to see the still frames) and now click on a thumbnail to jump right into that scene of the video! -Tracey … Continue reading
videos can seek now
Our flash-based player will now allow for folks to click anywhere on the timeline to have it quickly seek the film to the indicated position (previously users would have to wait for the video to download/pre-buffer up to that point … Continue reading
Archive supports subtitles now!
Our flash-based player supports “SubRip” files (files with “.srt” extension). About a month ago, we updated our video pages to automatically support subtitles. One simply needs to upload a file with a “.srt” extension (in the SubRip format) along with … Continue reading
Audio and Video improvements
Hi Patrons, Yesterday we made live a large update to the way we create the audio and video displayed on our site. Most folks might not notice the changes, so here’s a rundown: For Audio: We can now read and … Continue reading
New strategy for Internet Archive movies!
We have rebuilt all of our nearly 200,000 videos at the archive! [We finished this Dec 1, 2008] Related cross-blog with OLPC. Here is a table-based chart of which video formats will be “derived” into which formats (we are creating … Continue reading
Rederiving our movies to Ogg Theora and more!
[reposted and edited with generous consent from John Gilmore] The Internet Archive has a collection of about 185,000 moving images, including many cartoons and full-length movies that have fallen into the public domain. They offer full downloads in the best … Continue reading
Fast and reliable way to encode Theora Ogg videos using ffmpeg, libtheora, and liboggz
archive.org has started to make theora derivatives for movie files, where we create an Ogg Theora video format output for each movie file. after trying a bunch of tools over a good corpus of wide-ranging videos, i found a neat … Continue reading