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[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Steve,

I've forwarded your message to our website content group; the 
maintainer of the video section will read this as well. I'll leave it 
up to him to answer.

Thanks,

Bart

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Hi,

I'm excited about the new Video Tutorial secton on the website. But I 
was scared off downloading when I noticed that the video's are in AVI 
format. My broadband cap is 200Mb per month, so I'm not too keen to eat 
up 50Mb with just 1 clip. Could you please offer smaller versions of 
these files.
As part of my work, I'm occasionally required to email video clips to 
clients for approval. Out of all the streaming     and downloadable 
media formats I have come across, the Windows Media format  with a 
Medium Compression setting offers the most reasonable quality for file 
size ratio. It also seems to be the most user friendly for the 
recipient.
There are free WMV players available for Mac and Linux too.
Also worth a serious look are the Bink and Smacker formats from RAD 
Game Tools.  Bink has a "better than DVD non-mpeg" variable compression 
codec that I think is deserving of promotion. You can download the free 
Bink Tools from here
http://www.radgametools.com/default.htm
which include an encoder that will also create self executing video 
files for just an extra 100Kb in size.

Thanks for a great website,

~ Steve