September 30, 2003
QuickTime.
Before you can watch the documentary you'll need to download QuickTime 6. I use QuickTime professionally in a Windows environment and it performs amazingly. It's been called the jewel in Apple's crown, and for my money it's the greatest Multimedia architecture there is. If you want to get the best out of the web, be it streaming video, watching Flash or handling mp3 files (and I know there are still people about who are shy of this stuff) forget Realplayer and Windows Media Player, there's no better facilitator than QuickTime. And it's FREE! Advert over.
The download and install is a doddle. Don't be afraid, almost everything is done for you!
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The Main Feature.
The film itself is a 30MB file. That's large, but not preposterously so. It's 25 minutes long, so that file size is a miracle of compression. The way I managed to make it so small is to only have the frame-rate at 1-per-second. It's quite like watching a flip-book (La Jetee-style!), though the sound streams constantly. I think it works really well.
Posted by Woebot at September 30, 2003 06:22 AM