On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Indexer <inde...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses > > it, so I wanted to try. > > Mplayer comes with a program called mencoder, which will do your video > encoding. Its a bit more "hands on" but it is excellent once you learn it. > > > > > 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. > > IIRC, isnt MP4 just a container? what are the video codecs and audio codecs > in the file? If they are 264 and mp3, you should be able to use HTML5 for > them natively. > > MP4 is actually gaining alot of support in many OSes due to it being part > of the HTML5 spec. > > [major snippage] Well, there you go. Among the things I've just learned: 1) There are containers 2) Codec != container 3) Video and Audio are encoded one from column A and one from column B. I hope this gives you an idea of what a newb I am. Please calibrate responses accordingly. My friend is pretty sure my problem is the video H.264 codec. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
