Way OT: video formats (was Re:Video capture card)

[daniel]

On May 4, 2004 10:04 am, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> I need to put a video of about 10 minutes up on a website.  Does anyone
> have suggestions on the best way to present this (I'd rather not resort to
> anything like realserver)?
>
> Obviously small size is important and the ability to have it play as it
> downloads (I suppose most video players are capable of that?).

please don't flame me for this, but i have to recommend using something like 
windows media for what you're looking for.  in terms of codecs, the ms 
standard codecs are widely used and even work in linux (with mplayer).  to 
embed it in a webpage, you can use something like this:

<object id="NSPlay" width="320" height="240" 
classid="CLSID:2179C5D3-EBFF-11CF-B6FD-00AA00B4E220" 
codebase="http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version= 
5,1,51,415" standby="Loading Microsoft Media Player components..." 
type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="FileName" value="filename.avi">
<param name="ShowControls" value="false">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="false">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<param name="AutoSize" value="false">
<embed width="320" height="240" src="filename.avi" 
type="video/x-ms-asf-plugin" showcontrols="false" showdisplay="false" 
showstatusbar="false" autosize="false" 
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/player.htm"></embed>
</object>

if you use something like this, a windows-based machine will automatically 
download the required codec if it doesn't already exist.  i'm not sure how 
it'll work on an apple (osX or otherwise) but in linux it's likely to be 
about as successful as other examples of embedded video -- not successful at 
all.

for editing, i suggest virtualdub (yet another windows app)  it's AWESOME for 
simple editing and very featureful for what it is.  it even supports 3rd 
party plugins.  i also have a codec pack i downloaded a while back that 
includes a lot of the best codecs available out there (divx 4/5, 
windowsmedia, sorenson4 etc. etc.)  so all i had to do was install it, open 
the file in virtualdub, choose my codec (audio & video) and select 'save as 
avi".

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