[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Do you have a recommendation for how I can convert the quicktime and > flash movies to ogg?
That would produce an inferior result, since the Quicktime and Flash movies have (I assume) already been converted to a lossy codec <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression>. To process that data again through another lossy codec will cause a poor result, similar to making a photocopy of a photocopy. Much better would be to start with the video in its non-lossy form (either uncompressed, or compressed only with some lossless codec) and use that as the source for conversion to Dirac or Theora. This is the same principle as making a photocopy from the original, rather than from another photocopy. Presumably the Quicktime and Flash videos were created from some original lossless data source. Any further encoding should be done from a source as close to the original as possible. > I've had a hard time finding conversion apps for the Mac.I'd also be > happy to turn over the original movies to anyone who can help me > convert them. I don't know anything about MacOS applications. I do know that the BBC developed the "Schroedinger" (Schrödinger) implementation for encoding video to Dirac; you may want to see if that's available for your OS. -- \ “I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at | `\ the rate of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour …” —F. H. Wales, 1936 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
