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Calum:
any other good programs? are there any (linux) converters for quicktime formats to a real format? (i mean mpeg) or real video/audio to mpeg?
i asked this at doom9.org and got nothing but abuse in response.
what with avi being a microsoft format, and no even a real format at that (it can contain streams made by a shitload of different audio and video codecs), i didn't know it was so easy to convert from. Also, of course microsoft no longer support this format, since WMV is so much more superior... -)
voidmain:
Yes, mencoder should convert both of those types. And since mplayer/mencoder can use Windows codecs you basically can convert any type of format that Windows knows about and then some.
[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Calum:
sounds very good, i think i will have to seriously get into that, thanks for the tip.
voidmain:
Hey you just gave me an idea. I'm not much good at writing GUI apps in C/C++ (QT/GTK) but I can do most anything with Perl/PHP. In fact I know I could write a web page fairly quickly that would accept an uploaded file of any format and allow you to select a format to convert it to (along with other formatting options such as effects/sizing) using mencoder on the backend and then download it. I have writtem many such image convertion web apps. In fact I wrote an entire web based video security system that would use uploaded web cam images and perform motion detection and archiving etc..
I would bet that if I can find an hour or two of spare time I could have something pretty slick whipped up. Right now I've been focusing on video editing and VCDs though. Maybe later this evening I'll work on something. And then I believe there is a PHP-GTK library that might make it easy for me to convert it to a GTK app, dunno, haven't looked at that yet.
DJ:
I know this is a little off topic but is it possible to burn a DVD on your PC and watch it on a 'normal' (entertainment center type) DVD player? My roomy and I had this discussion and I was curious because I would most certainly rather buy a DVD-R for my pc ($499 and under before my discount at Best Buy) than some of the entertainment center types which I have seen as high as $999 there
DJ
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