Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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>> ...
>>
>> 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

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