Music Video Collection [part Deux]

I’m still transcoding video, but I’ve put up quite a few videos.  50 videos so far.  Just a drop in the bucket, but I’m getting there.

I never realized that my collection is so cluttered.  Its a mish-mash of videos of different sizes, different formats, encodings, and oddball bitrates.  I was originally thinking I could just go through all 300+ files and transcode them en-masse.  Nuh uh.  Some are AVI files which transcode rather cleanly.  Some are Mpeg in DVD format, which means I have to crank down the bitrate so its playable over the web.  Even then, some are MOV files, which could be mpg4, mov, mp2, or various other encodings.  Still yet, every MOV file I’ve come across is using an odd bitrate and sample rate.  While *most* videos use an audio sample rate of 44,100 or even 48,000, the MOV files I have are sampled at something really wacked like 16,000, for some odd reason.  To say the least, it makes transcoding them a pain in a big toe.

I’ve added the URL to the list (on the right side of this page) for future reference.

I’ve also locked down the access so the DRM/copyright police don’t come to lock me up (and so that I can limit access to people all over the world looking at my music videos).  To view any of the videos, you have to first register (with an email confirmation) and then login.

Well, I’m off, then.   ….back to transcoding.