On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my > camera broke, and I had to get > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up > with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The > problem is that its videos are MP4s, > which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing > about transcoding. My previous > camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks > browsers. The MP4s are huge > and in a weakly supported format. > > I'm somewhere on the learning curve, obviously, but having trouble > getting coherent advice.
I know several big-brained video geeks and most of them just use mplayer's mencoder app to do their transcoding. Or they write their own code. Your choice.
