Video degradation on publishing

Mar 14, 2013

Good day.

I tested Storyline trial and discovered that Storyline converted my videos from test course to mp4 with significant loss of quality. I created beautiful movies in Ogg theora and WebM then added them to empty slides as *.avi files - ok. But on publishing they got converted to mp4 with size slashed from 1MB to 200Kb with respective quality loss. Also in story_html5 version I got strange smoky background instead of pure white in my original movies. So I got the following questions:

1) How can I have Storyline not convert my videos for html5 output if they are in Html5 compatible codecs already?

2) What codecs should I use so Storyline not convert my videos for Flash output? Should I have flvs for Flash?

I want to opt out any conversion of my movies.

Thanks a lot!

PS Surely I can try to replace Storyline generated mp4s with my own files in the output dirs but this seems a way difficult. Thanks!

Alex

3 Replies
Peter Anderson

Hi Alexey, welcome to the community!

I just recently discussed a similar issue with another community member. You can check out our discussion over here

And I went into a little more detail about the workaround you mentioned right over here

I hope that helps shed some light, and let us know if you have any other questions. 

Thanks, Alexey!

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