The Sesame Street video that runs in the Helix player (RV encoded) is quite a good demo of full screen video on the laptop.
-walter On Dec 11, 2007 6:07 PM, Erik Blankinship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/11/07, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of > > the XO. Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so > > it's not a great demo for video playback. We bundle the Ogg Theora > > codecs, and Browse can play media files full-screen, so the first step > > is for someone to invest some time in transcoding an appropriate demo > > movie (I suggest > > http://www.elephantsdream.org/ -- some ogg transcoding linked from > > http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Elephants_Dream ) to an appropriate bit > > rate / size for the XO. Make it look good! > > > > It may be that we need to find a higher-performance (but still free) > > codec or some such to make this really look good. Help here could be > > useful, too. > > To handle most any digital video format, Quicktime would be easiest to get > started. > > Encode your existing files into DV (using Quicktime pro). > Use gstreamer to encode into ogg files: > gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=grover.dv ! dvdemux ! dvdec ! > ffmpegcolorspace ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location= grover.ogg > > Of course you will want to alter settings to change the file size, rate, > etc. You would make these changes in the gstreamer pipeline or in quicktime > as a pre-processing step. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel