Amazing HD Footage

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Aug 2006 at 20:57

Just been having a look at the BBC Motion Gallery, the HD footage is incredible, linky http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/TheatreHD.aspx?id=highdef#

Vulcan · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:09

My PC can't even handle those video's

For a direct link to the biggest Amazon video:

http://content.bbcmotiongallery.com/hd/AndesToAmazon_Hinted_1266x720_6800kbps.mov

Azza · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:13

**drools**

Gotta get me a HD TV, and a SKY HD box.

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:20

Azza said:
**drools**

Gotta get me a HD TV, and a SKY HD box.

Definatly, at work we do all the encoding for the motion gallery, some really excellent footage, makes me want to go and see the world.

SpicyDuck · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:20

Wow, they're quite amazing. I'm totally loving that my new laptop can play these HD clips flawlessly; something my old PC couldn't.

WHAT!!! · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:20

It does'nt look very detailed on my PC monitor right now also looks kinda grainy.

Are you guys running it through a HD TV ?

I went to a high street store the other day and they had a 42" Philips HD TV putting outs a lovely picture with awsome details, a lot better than im getting with this video on this monitor.

aardvark · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:21

the videos don't play for me when i click on them - they don't even download

WHAT!!! · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:22

aardvark said:
the videos don't play for me when i click on them - they don't even download

Do you have quick time player installed ? as its what is required to play them

aardvark · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:24

yep - but why don't they even download? - i click it, say save to disc and nothing happens, or i click it and say open in quicktime and QT opens but nothing plays.

WHAT!!! · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:26

not sure whats wrong then sorry.

Maybe your on a slow internet connection and its downloading/buffering via the player and you just need to wait awhile as 2 of them are 200+MB

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:26

just download it to disc then open the file it downloads with quicktime (the file downloaded is very small, like 20kb or something, quicktime then pulls the info from there and downloads the video from the web)

toy_soldier · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:28

Looks amazing! :eek:

Raymond Lin · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:29

aardvark said:
yep - but why don't they even download? - i click it, say save to disc and nothing happens, or i click it and say open in quicktime and QT opens but nothing plays.

you got to wait for it to load/stream before you play it.

My trusty old P4 3.2 Northwood play even the bigger res files no problem

only use about 60% cpu as well on average.

Mik3 · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:29

Stunning!

Are these part of a upcoming documentary?

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:30

Mik3 said:
Stunning!

Are these part of a upcoming documentary?

na it's all stock footage, the BBC sell it to other companies so they can use it in their programs, I deal with a lot of it at work so when I watch programs I always manage to spot some of the footage lol

Zheka · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:31

thanks for the link

aardvark · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:31

wait a minute, it did download a file, a really small one - ooops - so quick i didn't notice.

it wasn't doing anything in quicktime cos i blocked it from connecting to the internet in the firewall - another ooops

Paulj · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:32

Am i the only one who thinks that its nothing special? :confused:

grainy etc....

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:35

Well they aren't going to put full quality on the net for people to steal are they, that stuff is compressed to 6mbps, uncompressed its something crazy like 100mbps, might be more than that as it goes :eek:

Mik3 · 20 Aug 2006 at 21:36

Sirrel Squirrel said:
na it's all stock footage, the BBC sell it to other companies so they can use it in their programs, I deal with a lot of it at work so when I watch programs I always manage to spot some of the footage lol

Shame. BBC make awesome documentaries