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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:35:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2E5199-0656-4E91-9184-7B94943E0EEC@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik5ke2g8_otd1qeUa22v4Qf7Ji5bk9dU2NXQ3-J@mail.gmail.com>


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.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16  0:43 [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-16  0:55 ` Dale
2010-08-16  1:45 ` Stroller
2010-08-16  2:22   ` Dale
2010-08-16  3:02   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-16  4:49     ` Indexer
2010-08-16 20:00       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-16  7:35     ` Stroller [this message]
2010-08-16 19:52       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-17  0:59         ` Stroller
2010-08-16 15:13     ` Bill Longman
2010-08-16 20:21     ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-17 14:08       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-17 14:35         ` Stroller
2010-08-17 16:06         ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-17 18:18           ` Kevin O'Gorman

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