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On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, 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 |
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> one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up |
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> with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera |
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> and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The |
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> problem is that its videos are MP4s, |
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> which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing |
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> about transcoding. My previous |
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> camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks |
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> browsers. The MP4s are huge |
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> and in a weakly supported format. |
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> |
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> I'm somewhere on the learning curve, obviously, but having trouble |
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> getting coherent advice. |
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I know several big-brained video geeks and most of them just use |
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mplayer's mencoder app to do their transcoding. Or they write their own |
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code. Your choice. |