Six years after my first tentative attempts at streaming video from the DivIDE interface were presented at Notcon 2004, I’ve finally come up with a system that I’m happy with. It boasts 25fps playback with audio somewhere above the ‘nails in a vacuum cleaner’ quality of previous attempts (through the use of delta compression on the video data and variable bitrate audio to use up whatever processor time is left), a one-shot conversion utility that handles all the video decoding, rendering and re-packing, and a player routine that more or less respects the ATA spec (so won’t fall apart as soon as someone else tries it on a different CompactFlash card. Hopefully). Here’s how I presented it at the Outline demo party:
The full description, and a whole bunch of downloads, is on the DivIDEo project website.
Matt, this is fantastic work and should impress the heck out of everybody who has experienced the evolution of digital video first hand. Could you post a note about the opera clip as well? I’m glad you were so well received at Outline 2010 :)