Badminton Videos

• Online Streaming Video ( WCSN ) - premier realtime and archived video and news- BWF events, Olympics and more
• FAQ- frequent questions regarding videos.
• Full Length Videos
• Mirror Sites - here's where you go to obtain these videos
• How To Download - full length videos are no longer available directly from worldbadminton.com, but are instead available from a variety of mirror sites
• Problems Viewing Videos ? - most common problem is codecs
• Video Formats
• Movies with Badminton

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Full Length Videos

These are full-length videos in medium or higher resolution ( 360x240 or better ) and are intended for the serious viewer who doesn't mind spending some time downloading.  

Mirror Sites

Videos are no longer available directly from worldbadminton.com. However various individuals have established mirror sites to serve the badminton community. 

For instructions on how to access these mirrors, see How To Download Videos

How to Download Videos

A few notes for anyone who is not already familiar with the procedures for best downloading of large files over the net. Also a listing of mirror sites that are available.

Problems Viewing Videos

• MPEG problems.
  If you have any problems with these then almost certainly your downloaded copy is faulty. MPEG videos can be played on virtually all systems and using almost any video software. Try downloading again. If using FTP make sure that you are using BINary format.
• MP2 problems.
  This is a newer format (it is what is used by DVD's) that is not compatible with many older systems and older software. Make sure that you have recent versions of video software and make sure that you have an MP2 codec installed. Recent codecs can be downloaded from your software vendor's website. You can also grab codec packages from common places like
  • Microsoft
  • SLC
  • xpcodecpack
  • Free Codecs Extensive codec information, tools, utltilies

  If this doesn't help then as with the MPEG's you might have a defective copy. Download again making sure you have binary transfer.
  
  If your video plays OK but halts occasionally and doesn't play smoothly try shutting down other running processes. If you have an older slower system you may not be able to view these well. (200MHz Pentium is marginal)

Video Formats

The longer videos here are provided in one or more of the following formats. Note that proprietary formats such as Quicktime, AVI and RealMedia all have distinct advantages of their own but since they are not available to many users and their future usability depends upon specific companies they are not used here. Also streaming formats are not provided since the net is simply not broadband enough for high resolution streaming video.

All the longer videos are provided in the open MPEG standard and at present all are provided in pieces small enough to fit on CDROM's (700MB or less). 

• MPEG (MP1) - This is the most common and most widely available format and should be viewable on virtually any OS and virtually any platform- even fairly low performance processors will be fine. Resolution is set to 360x240x30 frames per sec (NTSC) or 360x290x25 frames per sec (PAL) and data rate is fixed to around 1.5Mbps. This is the format used by VCD's (Video CD's) which are playable in most DVD players. Presently all of the full length videos are offered in MPEG format.
• MP2 - The format of DVD's, MP2 is more efficient and higher resolution than MPEG, increasing to 720x480x30 fps, but with variable data rate averaging around 4Mbps. File sizes are larger but the extra resolution is very nice. When available these offer excellent viewability that is limited by the existing source material more than by the format. MP2 requires a reasonably fast CPU and is not available for all OS's so is a second order offering here.
• MP4 - The latest reasonably available MPEG format is MP4. This offers very significant improvements in the compression routines so much smaller file sizes, but at the cost of requiring a reasonably high end processor. MP4 will be offered more in the future as it becomes suitable for more users and as the evolving standard stabilizes. As MP4 evolves it will likely NOT be free- the MPEG association is presently planning on per-view charges. Developments in MP4 will determine future availability from this site.

Movies with Badminton

1. The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ) - fairly near the front of the movie, badminton played on board
2. Get Smart "Dear Diary" episode ( 12FEB1966 ) - searching for the Gaffer's diary, Max follows clues to shuttlecocks
3. Star! ( 1968 ) - shuttlecock
4. Dudley Do-right ( 1999 ) - mid-movie scene that takes place in gym with clear Badminton lines
5. Chicken Run ( 2000 ) - chickens playing badminton and shuttle as decoration

Page maintained by Stan Bischof (stan@worldbadminton.com) . Last updated: 27 December 2007 10:34