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July 19, 2005
Video Blog Test From Accra
I'm expermenting with video compression to see if I can work out the ideal size for uploading and downloading video clips here in Ghana. The bandwidth here is much slower than in the US, so I have to be careful about how large a file I post.
Here are two versions of some footage from the BusyInternet cybercafe, one low bandwidth and the other medium bandwidth. The low version is around 600k, while the medium version is 1.3 megs. (For those of you keeping score, the uncompressed version of this 40-second clip is over 30 megabytes - pretty useless here in West Africa.
Anyway, here are the results. Click on the appropriate link to try each version.
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Posted by acarvin at July 19, 2005 8:50 AM
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