[Sussex] Encoding video for web publishing

[Steven Dobson]

Al

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 16:33 -0600, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> Quoting Al Bennett <al at plasticfish.co.uk>:
> 
> > Evening all
> >
> > Delightful to see you all again last night!  Thanks again to Gavin 
> > for the talk, I'll play with Qemu.
> >
> > Anyway, simple question that's no doubt going to get me a bunch of 
> > mutually exclusive and paradoxical answers, but what's the best way 
> > (or, a good way at least) to encode a video for shoving online?  I've 
> > got a five minute promotional DVD that it would be nice to put on a 
> > site, encoded in a standard kind of way, that could be viewed with a 
> > standard issue Windows box as well as a penguin box.  I'd like to 
> > encode it in a fairly free software way if possible (ie, avoiding WMV 
> > crap or whatever Microsoft is touting now).
> >
> > I could probably use a Real/Quicktime encoder but I don't think 
> > either's well enough supported now to warrant using them.
> >
> > I don't want to stream, just standard HTTP downloads.
> >
> > Talking about web videos, I just watched some of that XGL stuff, I 
> > love that thing to make windows into thumbnails, that's cool, but 
> > what is the point of a transparent movie trailer?!  Unless it's for 
> > the Invisible Man, maybe.
> >
> I use dvd::rip - does most formats, including divx/xvid AVIs & MPEGs
> 
> There's some screenshots of the GUI & the ripped movies I did for a tutorial @
> http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/GP2X/rip.htm if it helps..

I encode to mp4 using mencode (the encoder that comes with mplayer).  I
have found it gives good compression and the format is well supported.

Steve
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