On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Indexer <indexer@internode.on.net> wrote:

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> > 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