[Sussex] Encoding video for web publishing

[Dominic Humphries]

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..

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.
>
> Ta!
>
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