I made an animation to share at an art festival at work.  About a dozen people
submitted framed still art; I've been submitting animations.

The coordinator of the contest was most gracious in lending me, or the contest,
a realllly old and clunky laptop to display my animation on.

I originally made two 640x480 MPEG-1's and put them together with title
sequences using Windows Movie Maker.


I made a 640x480 wmv and put it on the computer.  It played horribly clunkily.
I took the file into TMPGEnc and output a 640x480 and a 400x300 MPEG-1. The
400x300 MPEG-1 looked like crap as far as compression artifacts, but played
okay. Funny how I had something in the contest last year that was 400x300 and
didn't seem so bad on this guy's same old laptop.

Any tips?  Given that I mentioned POV-Ray, should I just outright cancel the
submission?  I suppose I could always put a personal laptop at risk for theft.

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