On Sat, Jun 10, 2006, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >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?
OK. I've tried several things unsuccessfully. I downloaded the TSCC codec for QuickTime from the link on the web page, but can't see that did anything. All I get with QuickTime or iMovie after importing the .avi file is the sound. BTW: I did upgrade to QuickTime Pro which didn't make any difference. MPlayer didn't do anything more than create a large window doing nothing, and wouldn't play back simple video files cleanly. 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 ``I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling, then the world will have peace.'' Will Rogers ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
