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martin_lovick
vi all the way!

I enjoy the occaisonal video on channel9, but cant really be bothered to wait for 200MB to download (im on a 2MB line) is there anyway of making the vids smaller? or use (dare i say it) mpeg4?

joem83
Heading toward the future. IE8, Vista, Office12, Zune 2.0

I actual find that WMV files can be made smaller and have great quility. Files I have created have always been smaller then mov and Mpeg4s, and at times have been better quility.

martin_lovick wrote:
I enjoy the occaisonal video on channel9, but cant really be bothered to wait for 200MB to download (im on a 2MB line) is there anyway of making the vids smaller? or use (dare i say it) mpeg4?

alwaysmc2
It's not stupid; It's advanced!

What's wrong with streaming? The videos are less than 300 kilobits/sec, so that should be fine for a 2MB line, right?

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

Doesn't bother me; I've saved 15GB of C9 vids in G:\Vids\Microsoft. Keep 'em comin.

Rowan
Look, no errors.

I think for some people with slower connections it would be good to have access to a seperate wav file, it's not always necessary to see the video anyway. The wav file would be a lot smaller and a good alternative for dial-up users, especially since some videos don't have a lot of visual content besides the people in the interview.

I've downloaded a couple of GBs of videos anyway, and I can't complain about the 1.5MB/s transfer rate.