Fragments Progress

So, been experimenting with fragments. Have added some more material, removed the text over the preview images (much better), and tried different compression options within Korsakow. At the moment I’m using the highest quality H.264 compression, but quite a few people have video that stutters (though it doesn’t happen for me, which is odd since the server is in the States), so have tried lower bit rates. The flv settings all generate horrible video. Even the highest setting, which produces larger files than the best H.264, is not nearly as sharp as H.264, while the next quality down has some clips where the pixellation is closer to the more experimental low res video that I do. I think the next steps in experimenting will be to move the preview windows around. At the moment they get populated sequentially, the first n, then the next n, and so on. But this is just a bit too much. I think if I moved them so that 3 got populated, but not in a row, then more, again not in a row, that things would look better. The only downside which might be a real breaker is that I can’t change the layout for each request, so whatever the pattern is it will be the same for every screen. It might just end up looking silly. I’ve also started adding duration information for the clips, though I’m not happy with how it appears, and have also started trying to limit the number of previews displayed for each keyword search, so that if a keyword has 20 matches it does not fill all the preview windows below the main video panel but will only fill, say 4, so that other keyword searches can populate the rest of the previews. This helps keep access to the library quite open and leaves room for the novel (and means you generally don’t get 10 preview images of just children).