[self-interest] Self video

Steve Dekorte steve at dekorte.com
Tue Feb 3 19:12:14 UTC 2004


On Feb 3, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> I am curious about why you "compressed" a 88MB movie into a 110MB file?

I didn't. .Mac does that when you upload files. I don't understand why. 
Maybe I need to strip any resource forks first?

> I had also converted the VHS tape into two DivX files - a barely
> watchable 20MB one (screens totally unreadable, though) and a
> reasonable 200MB, which I don't think is quite as good as your 88MB
> version. I didn't make these available, however, since I am still
> waiting for permission from Sun's legal department.

I asked Dave Ungar (or was it Randy Smith?) about distributing these on 
the langsmiths CD and they thought it was ok, so I figured it wasn't a 
problem.

-- Steve




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