Throughout my career, that have been certain video clips that were used for debugging and testing at work that I’ve seen several times. And by ‘several’, I mean in the thousands. From the video to Michael Penn’s “Seen the Doctor” back in the very early days of QuickTime, to the BMW Film clips that we used in demos for IPTV, there have been a number of them.
But for sheer number of viewings, none can top the music video to Sarah McLachlan’s “Building A Mystery”. We used this for several different versions of QuickTime, testing lots of different things. Different codecs, streaming, you name it. For all I know, they may still use that video in QT testing. I’ve probably seen at least part of that video tens of thousands of time. When I hear it on the radio, I can see each frame of the video in my head. Complete with video artifacts from the Sorenson video codec.
So, when we were in Salt Lake City, and the radio station there started playing a live version of Building A Mystery … my head almost exploded. So close, and yet the timing was different enough that the automatic playback of the video in my head couldn’t work.
Very disconcerting.
Posted by Mike at January 14, 2005 09:59 AM"Throughout my career, that have been certain video clips that were used for debugging and testing at work that I’ve seen several times. And by ‘several’, I mean in the thousands."
and by "video clips," I mean "pornography."
ah, that warms the soul. anyway, glad all is well. see you guys soon. ely had to go back to the hospital for hearing test also, but it worked out ok.
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