Digital Video Preservation at the Smithsonian: Converting Video from CD-ROM
Description:
This video from Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 11-014, "Inside Fieldwork," is an excerpt of a larger video file found on a CD-ROM created in 2000 by the National Museum of Natural History. Before being converted for playback on the web, the video was in an MPG file container and was compressed with the MPEG-2 codec, which is playable in most media players. Initially, it was converted to MOV but would not play in YouTube. This version is now in WebM for YouTube playback.
Video Duration:
2 min 24 sec
YouTube Keywords:
archive museum Smithsonian history conservation preservation archivist
