On Wednesday 23 November 2005 14:21, Abhishek Daga wrote: > --- JTD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:51, Abhishek Daga wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good converter to get my .mov files and > > > .dat files into real format.
> Ok, so open format it is. I dont particularly care about the > format. U have to be concerned. Without a licenced encoder u could be looking at fat liabilities. > Only concerns are that when I upload those, they should > choke the bandwidths of the people trying to view it, and they > should be able to view it. That would depend on the bitrate and resolution settings. Currently MPEG4 is the best and vlc can stream and en/decode that very well. Theora is not as good. For high resolution high bitrate streams Dirac (gpl by BBC) is particularly good but experimental right now. > Will they have to install additional > plugins? Yes they will require the theora codec available at http://xiph.org/ theora/ Otoh u can use vlc/ffmpeg to create mpeg4 streams, although mpg4 is encumbered for commercial use. rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
