CD image size recovery suggestions

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Sep 6 19:53:29 BST 2006


On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:24:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:15:52AM +0200, Manu Cornet wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > example-content has the 11MB "Experience ubuntu.ogg" video. This was
> > > sort of a Dapper special, and I wonder if it makes sense to keep it
> > > around forever.
> > 
> > I reencoded the video to make it 3.4 M (instead of 10.6 M) while
> > losing very little quality. Here it is:
> > 
> > http://www.manucornet.net/pub/Experience_Ubuntu_smaller.ogg
> 
> I haven't done a full side-by-side comparison, but I agree, this looks
> about as good as the original to my eyes. Daniel, could you incorporate
> this resampled version into example-content, please? If Mark has other
> feelings when he gets back from holiday, we can deal with it then.

It would be preferable to re-encode the original using these alternative
parameters, rather than re-encoding this lossy version.

-- 
 - mdz



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