Help Adjusting Background FLV

[salomon741]

I am right now working on a new site that uses a background SWF and FLV video. I know I can optimize it better, but what are some proper techniques for encoding the FLV file so it doesn't take a sheer demand on the computer video card?

The link is here: Sea of Jazz - The Beauty of Ocean and Music Combined

Thanks for all of your help.

[salomon741]

To clarify my post, I'd like to add that this is optimizing it for playback on the client side (not exporting it on my computer). Thanks for the help, cheers!

[Web-Design-Guy]

I've never bothered to attempt fullscreen playback like this, mainly because the quality would have to be so low in order to achieve decent playback.

I had a look at your link, and on me reasonable Apple G5, I'm getting like 10fps at fullscreen - acceptable fps when I make the window about quarter size.

Are all those square dots part of the swf or part of the flv?

[salomon741]

The square dots are part of the swf.

Have a look at this site: Byblos discoteque, Pore?, Croatia - house music your music

It looks like they're utilizing the same thing, but quality and flv playback is fairly decent. I can't help but think what they're doing different in comparison. Any ideas?

[Web-Design-Guy]

Well that site crashed my browser after the intro.

Their 'dots' are part of the flv so I bet that's part of yr problem. Also, those falling diamonds are in grayscale (only 256 colours to process vs. millions).

[Web-Design-Guy]

Also, their flv is quite a short loop.

[salomon741]

I originally thought it was short, too. But I noticed that after I let their page sit for a while I went back and it looks like the FLV kept loading...I timed it and it looks like the loop fully loaded lasts over a minute!

I am going to experiment with a smaller colour palette, though. I am also going to try rendering the video at 15fps instead of 30fps. However, I still get the feeling I might not get the same effect as theirs.

[Web-Design-Guy]

Try with and without the overlaid dots too.

I suspect they're a big part of the problem (unless you can apply them directly to the original mov (I use After Effects for that kind of thing).

[salomon741]

Thanks for the help! I'll let you know how it works out...

[luigip]

Originally Posted by Web-Design-Guy

I'm getting like 10fps at fullscreen - acceptable fps when I make the window about quarter size.

What is see on seaofjazz.com is still pretty slow. Not acceptable for users!