online vids too dark.. why ?
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From: Howard on 1 Mar 2010 11:52 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Gwynne Harper <g.harper(a)gmx.line> wrote: > > > The answer to the question on the video is, of course, 'yes'. > > It was an interesting piece, as far as I watched it. > > I think the answer is really 'better'. > > Relating to the original query about darkness, what machine are you > using to view it? Because, like you, on both the macs I have used to > view it, the brightness is absolutely fine. To you Peter and ALL you guys who are looking into this I want to thank you very much for your time. I will check out a wider range of vids and come back to this thread in the next 24hrs... Howard
From: zoara on 1 Mar 2010 12:49 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > > HTML 5 is not Flash (or Silverlight or Java FX -- not that anyone > > cares about those all that much). That's the big deal. > > Well given that Flash works extremely well, Ah. That there is where you're going wrong ;) Flash *doesn't* work extremely well; for instance, watching the same YouTube on Flash and HTML5 pegs my CPU at 85% and 18% respectively. Flash is inefficent and - in my case, with a laptop on my lap - causes physical discomfort. It's also apparently - according to the stats that Apple collects when apps crash - the biggest single cause of crashes on OSX. Not the biggest cause in Safari, but in *the whole of OSX*. It also seems perverse that both Safari and Chrome have been specifically designed to isolate the processes spawned by plugins, so that if (when?) they crash, they don't bring down the whole browser. Rearchitecting an application that heavily implies that browser plugins were a big cause of browser instability, and which is the most common browser plugin? Hmmm. Aside from that, there's the question of whether a single private vendor should control so much of the web's content. What if they started charging a licence fee for the player, or to host and/or distribute files in their format? What if they decide to pull the Flash plugin from the Mac platform until Apple adds Flashsupport to the iPad (or indefinitely, just to spite Apple?) It's about being able to achieve the same outcome - in most cases, playing video - without relying ona single controlling vendor. SublimeVideo is a good example of a step in that direction... > then there really is no > point in HTML5 at all, except as a curiosity. HTML5 isn't just about the video tags, though that's the headline news. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 1 Mar 2010 12:49 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. > > I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them > always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned > up > to maximum brightness. > > Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? > Reading the continuing discussion here, it strikes me that if it's only YouTube videos where you see the brightness problem, then a screenshot containing a video and a reference image (say apple.com/imac) might help. We could open that video and reference image in the same browser as you and compare relative brightnesses of the image and video. We'd need to know the URLs of each and how far through the video you are... Skitch is the easiest way to publish a screenshot. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Ben Shimmin on 1 Mar 2010 13:08 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net>: [...] > It's about being able to achieve the same outcome - in most cases, > playing video - without relying ona single controlling vendor. > SublimeVideo is a good example of a step in that direction... I'm not really sure something that doesn't work for ~70% of the web's users is a particularly useful step, though. Anyone else remember those happy days when people used fancy words like `interoperability' to describe how the web should be? b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Peter Ceresole on 1 Mar 2010 13:33
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Reading the continuing discussion here, it strikes me that if it's only > YouTube videos where you see the brightness problem I *think* the OP has said that it wasn't just Youtube videos, but all kinds of videos using different players. -- Peter |