Re: Best compression setting for Windows Media streaming over broadband and dialup?

So I did some tests with your suggested settings and they look promising.

Early on, I also tried to crop the image in equal amounts on all sides, but this appeared to somehow affect the video's fields / field order. The input was interlaced, lower-field first, and output was intended to be progressive. Flip4Mac was supposed to deinterlace this video, but something was screwy there. I got rid of the cropping the file worked fine.

At one point, I started having problems with audio stuttering on playback. I checked the original Quicktime reference, which now was experiencing the same problem. After rebooting the computer though, audio playback on both the master Quicktime and the Windows Media encoded file were fine and back to normal.

I want to try some more experiments with your settings. Thank you for taking the time to write, and to explain some of these concepts. I'll keep you posted here on my final results. Thanks!