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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Indexer <indexer@××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
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> > Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses |
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> > it, so I wanted to try. |
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> Mplayer comes with a program called mencoder, which will do your video |
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> encoding. Its a bit more "hands on" but it is excellent once you learn it. |
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> > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my |
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> camera |
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> > 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 with |
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> a |
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> > 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 |
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> > 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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> IIRC, isnt MP4 just a container? what are the video codecs and audio codecs |
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> in the file? If they are 264 and mp3, you should be able to use HTML5 for |
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> them natively. |
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> MP4 is actually gaining alot of support in many OSes due to it being part |
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> of the HTML5 spec. |
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> [major snippage] |
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Well, there you go. Among the things I've just learned: |
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1) There are containers |
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2) Codec != container |
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3) Video and Audio are encoded one from column A and one from column B. |
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I hope this gives you an idea of what a newb I am. Please calibrate |
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responses accordingly. My friend is pretty sure my problem is the video |
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H.264 codec. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |