On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:44:48PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: > I was always under the impression that .avi was a fairly standard and > easy to use format for video, most of what I download from the web is in > this format. But I'm finding editing with Avi's in linux to be a pain. > What formats do people recommend encoding to if I want to edit in linux. > I have tools in windows to convert to just about whatever I want I'm > just not sure what a great choice is. > > In the end I probably want to create downloadable files and author Dvds > in cross platform compatibilty. > > Suggestions, experiences? > Alex
Open standards are best. AVIs are fine, except that almost all of them get done using proprietary codecs, which ruins it. MPEG-2 is probably the way to go, especially if you're planning on authoring DVDs (which use MPEG-2). -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
