Hi Peter, Would this help in transcoding the videos? http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_Batch_Encode My only experience with encoding is using Handbrake on a PPC so my experience is limited, but a DVD down to 20MB? Doubt that would be possible unless we are watching stamp-size videos?
Regards, Sagar 2009/1/9 Peter Junge <[email protected]> > Hi Máté, > > Máté Gergely wrote: > > Just an idea: > > > > I was lucky to find the ooocon2008 programme and the plenty available > > presentation data there, for example ( > > http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/friday.html ). > > > > There are plenty of AVI formatted movies online, of which most are > > larger than 100 MB / file. The total amount of presentation videos > > online is measured in gigabytes. > > That's true. > > > > > It would be good to have those videos available in much smaller files, > > presumably in highly compressed and open(!) OGG Theora encoded format ( > > http://www.theora.org/ ). Say, max 20MB / file, downloadable with a low > > speed connection. > > I would have also preferred to use OGG/Theodora, but we have decided > against it, because it will not play on many Windows PCs, because they > do not have the codecs present. I also did a lot of testing in > minimizing the video size. I would doubt, that 20MB files are convenient > to watch. I might be wrong, because all I know about video encoding I > have learned in the past six or seven weeks. If you can give me a hint, > how to encode a video DVD best to a 20MB OGG video, I'll give it a try > at the weekend. > > > > > There are many regions in the world where to transfer gigabytes of data > > is not yet affordable. Yet developers in those regions may be still > > interested in the happenings at ooocon, and want to see the videos. > > I'm pretty much aware of this issue. > > Best regards, > Peter > > > -- > Peter Junge > > OpenOffice.org Annual Conference > Beijing 2008 > Organizational Team > > Thanks to anyone, who has attended the OOoCon in Beijing! > > See the media: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Media_about_the_OOoCon_2008 > > OOoCon website: > http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html > > Conference Program: > http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
