On Sat, Jun 10, 2006, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >On Fri, Jun 09, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote: > ... >> 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?
I don't know about that. I rarely do anything with video on computer screens. I did play with iMovie and iDVD enough to make a very short video from photos so I could see how it's done. I am planning on using this video in a presentation at a local Apple users group where I'll need to be using it on a PPC iMac and their video projector. My laptop is an ancient ThinkPad 600 running SuSE 9.2 Professional, on which I've never been able to get the sound working so that's not an option. I'm attempting to build xine from CURRENT on my Mac Mini, but I don't know (a) whether it will work, and (b) whether it will do sound under X11 even if it works. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now. -- SOUTH CAROLINA v. US, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905) ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [email protected]
