Floyd Town Jubilee Video
This video went up on The Floyd Press web site right after Floyd’s Town Jubilee last month but that version wasn’t available in High Definition (HD). Here’s an updated version. If he video doesn’t play smoothly, try turning off HD by moving your cursor over the video frame and clicking on “HD is on” on the right side.
Doug,
I know nothing at all about video production so I’ll just report my experiences. I went to the Vimeo site and listened to the Jubilee video with HD on and HD off. With HD on, the Jubilee video didn’t work (no movement) and the audio was “jumpy”. With HD off, the video worked and the audio was less “jumpy” but still quite noticeable. I then went to the Floyd Virginia Friday Night Jamboree video and found that with HD on, the video was jumpy but with HD off, it was much improved. This video, unlike the Jubilee video, moved with HD on or off. In both cases the audio worked but was much improved with HD off. I have no idea what might be causing this, but I thought if I described what happens that you might be able to figure it out. In all four cases (two videos with HD on and off), I waited until the file was fully downloaded before watching it, as I thought that interruptions in the file download process might be causing the jumpiness.
At my office, both HD and non-HD on Vimeo plays smoothly (10 meg connection). At home (6 meg connection), non HD plays smoothly while HD has some starts and stops. The players are Flash dependent and it helps to have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed as a plug-in.
I’ve found that videos naturally play better on a Mac with Safari than on a PC with either Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Doug,
Unfortunately, I can barely meet T-1 speeds – my DSL is all copper and almost 20K feet from the central office. I’m doggone lucky I have as fast a connection as I do! Allegedly, AT&T is going to install a new piece of equipment about 5K feet from my house sometime in October and I should then be able to upgrade to 3Meg or 6Meg service. 10Meg service is unavailable. I’m not sure you know how fortunate you are to have the speeds you have in such a rural location – that is just one of many reasons I bought property in Floyd!! I’m on a Mac with Firefox – I have had mixed results with Safari.