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