Those files should be pretty darn easy to encode. What bitrate
are you using? SV3 Pro? If so, to get more reliable playback, turn
scalability off, and encode in CBR instead of VBR.
The Apple MPEG-4 decoder is very fast, and more up to date than
SV3. The stock Apple encoder isn't particularly good, but Popwire's
Compression Master does a GREAT job making 2-pass encoded MPEG-4
videos into .MOV files.
I'm currently distributing video via Quicktime straight from a CD-ROM
through Macromedia Director MX on PCs only. The codec is Sorenson
Video 3,
15 frames per second, 640x480, Keyframe every 150 frames with a
data rate
limited to 500 kbps. These files are still stalling on some pretty
fast
machines and I am experiencing instances where they even look to
lose sync.
Any thoughts on a better flavour of compression to keep quality up,
but make
it run more efficiently from CD.
