From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OkuFT-0007la-W6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:36:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22710E05C7; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA04E05C7 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:35:35 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,373,1278284400"; d="scan'208";a="218398157" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 16 Aug 2010 08:35:34 +0100 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A6A6C482 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:35:31 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <4E2E5199-0656-4E91-9184-7B94943E0EEC@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:35:31 +0100 References: <9363C3DB-A0B7-420A-9DA3-AAE8538F5FDE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 6a0c81cb-c0dd-4951-887b-40033b73e914 X-Archives-Hash: c6236f3625999a2fd76a6d523be85c71 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.