Crap web video

Thijs van der Vossen, 06 Feb 2007, 09:50 in broken and video, last updated 06 Feb 2007, 10:03 (edit).

In the latest Venture Voice episode Fred Seibert talks about Channel Frederator. A little ashamed never even having heard of what sounded like a really cool cartoon channel, I immediately checked it out when I reached the office.

After watching the first few minutes of what looks like it’s supposed to be a great cartoon I gave up in disgust. If you ‘really love cartoons and the people who make them’ (as they say on the about page), then why do you make them look this awful?

Web video that looks like crap

Heavy combing (‘hmm, I wonder what this de-interlace checkbox is for?’) with lots of low-bitrate encoding artifacts on top. Yuck.

Granted, you can download a higher bitrate mpeg-4 version that looks better although it still has the combing artifacts.

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Tijs 15 days later: (delete | show email)

Subscribe to the itunes vodcast instead that one is great quality. it might be the same mpeg-4 version you are talking about though so maybe you should take a look at your decoder settings? ¶
Thijs van der Vossen 15 days later: (delete)

The mpeg-4 version of episode 64 is progressive, not interlaced. The combing artifacts are the result of encoding the mpeg-4 from an interlaced source without a de-interlacing filter. This means there's no way to do de-interlacing on playback. The second part of episode 64 seems to be taken from a progressive source. ¶