[Frameworks] The Digital Video Exhibition Problem: And An Offer To Address It

[Brook Hinton]

Sorry for that last mispost. 

True about the tearing though I've seen this from DVD and Blu ray as well on less than optimal projectors. 

And I think we have a disconnect here - I'm thinking about venues for experimental work that these days have trouble affording anything - so DIY low budget  scenarios are the realm addressing. 

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On Dec 5, 2010, at 3:09 PM, "Aaron F. Ross" <aaron at digitalartsguild.com> wrote:

> Brook Hinton <bhinton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David - that does indeed work, assuming a dead-compatible player. 
>> Before folks get too over the moon though, it's NOT blu-ray quality, 
>> though it is a BD spec. I can't remember the bandwidth limitation, 
>> but I think significantly below the max for Blu-Ray
> 
> I looked this up, and the nominal AVCHD-on-DVD bandwidth limit is 18 
> megabits/sec. The bandwidth limit for the AVCHD format proper is 24 
> megabits/sec. I've had success burning a 24mb/s file onto DVD media, 
> and it played fine on my Blu-ray player, but of course your mileage may vary.
> 
> Anyway, either 18mb/s or 24mb/s should be enough for most 1080p 
> footage. It's true that commercial Blu-ray discs can be authored at 
> up to 72 mb/s, but most of the ones I've seen average about 24 mb/s. 
> Experimental work with a lot of motion/detail may need a higher 
> bitrate than 18 or 24, so if that's the case, just encode at a higher 
> rate and burn onto Blu-ray media.
> 
> In any event, encoding issues still exist in the multimedia file 
> domain. If you want your work to look good, you still have to know 
> about this stuff and encode your work appropriately.
> 
> 
>> I'll end my anti-round-disc diatribe with this and then fall silent: 
>> in multi-maker exhibition situations i've found DVDs (and by 
>> extension Blu-Ray) incredibly awkward on a physical level (cueing, 
>> loading, unloading, etc.)
> 
> Well, that does mean the projectionist needs to do changeovers like 
> in the old days... look at it as job security for projectionists. 
> :)  And of course you need a switcher or two projectors as well, so 
> it does get expensive for DIY operations. But established 
> institutions can certainly afford it.
> 
> I'm just really down on the whole "dump the files in a playlist and 
> let it roll" method of exhibition. My main objection is that, even 
> today, computers don't have much elegance in the way they handle a 
> discrepancy between source frame rate and display scan rate. In other 
> words, if the media is encoded at 23.976 fps, and the desktop is 
> displaying frames at 60 Hz, you're likely to see horrible horizontal 
> tearing in the middle of the frame, or blurry frame blending. Pick 
> your poison. With dedicated hardware such as a Blu-ray player, this 
> is not an issue.
> 
> Aaron
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> Aaron F. Ross
> Digital Arts Guild
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