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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my |
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>> camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really know what |
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>> to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera and video |
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>> recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem is that its |
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>> videos are MP4s, which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I |
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>> know nothing about transcoding. My previous camera took acceptable .avi |
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>> videos, which had worked with most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in |
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>> a weakly supported format. |
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> MP4 is a much better container format than .avi. |
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> I previously discussed this a little in July's "viewing .m4v files with |
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> totem" thread: |
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@l.g.o/msg103363.html |
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> Use the `mplayer -identify` command given there to determine the codec of |
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> your video. |
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> Stroller. |
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The codec is H.264, which most of my readers don't have. They are |
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non-technical which makes it a major pain, and I want out of it. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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