Vimeo

As of 2010, many of the movies on this website are hosted by vimeo. It should be that vimeo provides fast video streaming, reliability under heavy load, and compatibility across browsers and operating systems.

• Vimeo requires Adobe Flash Player to be installed.
• If you see white space where there should be a video, it may suggest a problem with the vimeo website.
• June 2011 update: Switched embedded vimeo videos from <embed> to <iframe> tags, thereby enabling visibility on iphone and ipad.

What to do

The intention is that the local (non-vimeo) movies on this site should work across all graphical browsers and all operating systems.

• The microsoft-mpeg4 movies (.avi extension) should work under Windows. On other operating systems these movies should work with the ffmpeg gstreamer plugin.
• If all else fails, the movies should be playable with the open source mplayer media player.

How the movies were made

The movies were made on a linux box with the open source mencoder (part of mplayer) and mjpegtools utilities.

The microsoft-mpeg4 movies (.avi extension) were made with the following mencoder commands (a two pass render):

The quicktime movies (.mov extension) were made with the following mencoder and mjpegtools commands: