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On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> ... |
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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 |
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> know what to look for. I wound up with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p |
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> camera and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. |
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> The problem is that its videos are MP4s, which are definitely not |
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> ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing about transcoding. My |
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> previous camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with |
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> most folks browsers. The MP4s are huge and in a weakly supported |
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> 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 |
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with 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 |
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of your video. |
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Stroller. |
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