I don't know much (anything) about video files. A windows friend showed me:

SUPER is just a windows front-end for a bunch of Linux tools. If you're running Linux, you don't need SUPER. You just roll up your sleeves and bang out a command line with switches and arguments. That's what real Linuxers do. None of that girlie GUI stuff...;-)


I laughed; but I wasn't in the mood that day, so I booted into windows and played away. All was well until now I want to add sound. Sure SUPER will support it, but I've never gotten around to fixing sound on W2K. So guess what?

It's back to Linux!

Any ideas on converting .mov files?

I especially want to drop the file sizes and test different formats.
Is there a recommended linux encoder/decoder for movie formats?

Lazy post yes. I haven't really looked around.
Just curious :-)

I recommend transcode. It has better audio and video sync than mplayer's menocder. Cinelerra CV is the best non-linear video editing program for Linux.

Linux media programs can play mov or Quicktime files. Majority of Linux users prefer mplayer. mplayer is a good universal media player that has a lot tolerance of errors in the media file, but it lacks good audio and video sync.

I do not know why you want to re-encode mov to another format. If you do, the quality will get worst.

In my mind it's like taking a picture file and making it smaller.
I have a couple of family videos I want to share and some people
may have difficulty (?)

I have few test subjects ;-)

This is straight from my camera. I can view it fine here.
But it sure is a big file!

http://eckford.ca/family/Bob/index.php

It's .mov but can it be improved?

For example my mom can view
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21513434302988

but she can't see the video on
http://eckford.ca/family/Bob/index.php

She could only hear the audio?

This is what I am curious about....

I'll look in to your suggestions. Thanks!

From the specs that mplayer provided, the sound is sampled at 7875 Hz and at 8-bit mono. This is very, very low quality sound. Actually it is a little better than telephone quality. Not all sound cards can playback at this sample rate such as on-board sound. If the video is captured from a DV camcorder, the quality of sound should have CD audio quality at the very least. Sample rates should be kept to common specs like 11025 Hz, 22050 Hz, 44100 Hz, and 48000 Hz.

Digital camcorders needs a lot of light to get good quality of video. What you are seeing in the video is digital noise and this noise is cause by AGC (automatic gain control). The only way to fix the noise is to bring in more light during shooting the scene. Cleaning up the noise during editing will take a lot of time and effort. Usually the clean up will make the video quality worst than before. Regular analog camcorders are better when using in low lighting scenes. Go to http://www.camcorderinfo.com to find the best camcorder for what you are doing.

If video can not be seen but audio can be heard, the correct video codec need to be downloaded first. Majority of people can watch MPEG-1 with out any problems.

Of course video capturing takes a lot of space. DV takes between 1 GB to 9 GB per hour. I recommend using four IDE or SATA in RAID-0 to keep up with the recording and provide enough space. The filesystem that I recommend using is XFS or JFS, but I prefer XFS because it does not get fragmented like JFS.