[TriLUG] FOSS formats for digital video

[Neil L. Little]

vlc is quite a handy tool. I have converted the folks at work to vlc 
(away from windows media player and quick time).
go for ogg/vorbis and ogg/theora.

though they still must have their windows one thing is agreed upon 
apple/macs are evil (ie. steve jobs).

73,

Neil Little, WA4AZL
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Reginald Reed wrote:

> 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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