[TriLUG] FOSS formats for digital video

[Reginald Reed]

Joe,

I'd check out VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/, its a great cross
platform swiss army gadget.  You can transcode video and audio, play
many different formats, send and receive media streams, deals with
multicast, etc, etc.  If you have the instructor produce an H.264
video, you'll be able to use VLC to play it on all the platforms it
supports.

--Reggie

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> I give a guest science talk at a local school (same talk
>  each year). Since I'm taking an on-line course at the
>  moment, it occured to me that some people outside the school
>  might be interested in the talk and I could put it on my
>  webpage. The school has a new looking video camera and is
>  quite happy to shoot my talk and help make a web version of
>  it for me. The teacher who has all the hardware can do the
>  titles and splice images etc into the movie for me, so I
>  won't have to do any of the editing, which is a big help,
>  since I don't know the first thing about any of this.
>
>  They're a Mac school and the teacher wants to do it in some
>  format starting with 'i' (itunes, imovie, ibook...?) and
>  mentioned Quicktime (I don't know if this is different to
>  imovie, or the protocol under imovie). I said I'd be happy
>  to have it in Quicktime, but that I can never get Quicktime
>  to work on my Linux machine and as well I'd like to have the
>  talk in a format that would work for non-Macs (I'm happy to
>  have it downloadable in a couple of formats). I mentioned
>  real, avi, dvx. The teacher looked at some pull down menu
>  and said "they're all proprietary, you don't want those". I
>  said they worked fine for me.
>
>  I got nowhere and eventually changed the subject.
>
>  What format(s) does video come off a modern video camera?
>
>  If the teacher does all the editing on a Mac, will the
>  stream be converted to iMovie format before the editing and
>  it won't be convertible to other formats post edit? Are
>  there format converters? How do I get a multiple formats?
>
>  What format(s)/protocols are cross platform, or at least
>  well supported in Linux?
>
>  Thanks Joe
>
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