On Fri, Jun 09, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006, OpenPKG wrote:
> >It is our pleasure to make the new official OpenPKG Demonstration Video
> >available to the community, featuring OpenPKG 2.5 on FreeBSD 6, Debian
> >GNU/Linux 3.1 and OpenSolaris 10 b34 in parallel.
> >
> > http://www.openpkg.org/documentation/showcase/
> >
> >The goal of this video is to illustrate OpenPKG's important
> >cross-platform and multiple-instance capabilities in a more appealing
> >and intuitive way than what is possible with the usual tutorial style
> >step-by-step command lists or simple screenshots.
>
> Any hints as to how to either view this with QuickTime or convert
> the .avi file to .mov?
>
> While searching versiontracker.com for something, I did find
> Flip4Mac which allows one to use QuickTime for Windows Media
> Player files.
Hmmmmm... you don't want to really convert the AVI/TSCC based video into
a MOV/MPEG4 based one as the quality drops down dramatically, Bill. TSCC
is a real _lossless_ codec (which is what is required for good quality
screen capturing) while MPEG4 is a _lossy_ codec (which is what works
best for motion pictures but works horribly for screen captures).
If you really want to do this conversion you have to keep the video
at 1600x1200 (never try to reduce its size or it will be even more
horrible in quality) and increase the MPEG encoding quality to maximum.
This way the result will have the usual MPEG artifacts, but will still
look acceptable. The drawback is that the file size will increase
dramatically (from about 500MB to certainly somewhere between 1-2GB as
the introduced blurring doesn't compress very well).
But isn't there a media player for MacOS which is able to directly play
AVI/TSCC videos?
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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