On Saturday 03 September 2005 12:05, Tim Churches wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > >The output produced by xvidcap is running too fast. This is due to xvidcap > >dropping frames on slow machines. > > > >The fact that those movies don't run in MediaPlayer just shows the quality > > of this software (or lack of). > > > >But before you call us ignorant we do our best to provide you with video > > that even MediaPlayer users can watch. We have failed to produce such a > > viedo with free codes and cannot use your beloved wmf. Thank MS for that. > > > >I recommend you get a decent video player for your OS which happens to be > >either VLC or MPlayer. Extend them with a codec pack and you are ready to > > go. > > > >Until then I am afraid we have to live with blocky, fast running mpegs/avi > >videos. Hi Tim !
Thanks for the info. Too bad I don't have regular access to a Windows machine but when I have I will try. > > About 90% of potential GNUmed users will be running Ms-Windows. Of > those, about 90% will not bother to install a better video play. > Therefore about 81% of potential GNUmed users will never see your video, > or if they do, it will look terrible and run at the wrong speed. > > >I appreciate any notice on where to find free alternatives. If you happen > > to know of such a thing even on MS Windows I would be glad to hear about > > it. > > How about vnc2swf? But the best way to produce screen movies on MS > Windows which can be viewed by MS Windows users is to use Windows Media > Encoder, which comes at no extra cost with Windows XP (and may be > installable at no extra cost for earlier versions, I think). Yes, it > only produces WMF files which can only be viewed on MS Windows machines, > so you need to make two movies - one for MS Windows and one using > xvidcap for everyone else, but hey, that's life. The movie produced by > Windows Media Encoder will look much better and the file will be much > smaller, in my experience. > > Tim C > > >Sebastian > > > >On Tuesday 30 August 2005 21:16, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>eventually I managed to get xvidcap to work und Debian :-) > >> > >>I'll capture a nice GNUmed-in-use video and put it up on the > >>web. It's going to be a couple of MB, though. > >> > >>Karsten > > _______________________________________________ > Gnumed-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.openmed.org] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null ICQ: 86 07 67 86 -> No files, no URL's VoIP: callto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] My OS: Suse Linux. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
