Re: How to make AVI into ... Some Answers

2007-03-19 Thread Nick Rout
Your first movie, which was 30MB as mjpeg with pcm sound is now 1.2M I halved the dimensions ie 640x480-->320x240 video codec x264 @ 250 kbps audio codec mp3 container mp4 I'll email you the file offlist. On Monday 19 March 2007 23:47, Nick Rout wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > > use avidemux. Belie

Re: How to make AVI into ... Some Answers

2007-03-19 Thread Nick Rout
Don Gould wrote: use avidemux. Believe me use avidemux. I'll say it again!!! use avidemux If you want to play in this space then knowing about mplayer and mencoder seems to be a place to start. I'm using debian, but there doesn't seem to be a package. Never fear, after the stuff I did last

Re: The streaming bit, WAS How to make AVI into etc

2007-03-19 Thread Nick Rout
Don Gould wrote: I've had a read of some of that. Looks really interesting. Once I've worked out how to encode things then I think I'll have a look at DSS as well. DSS is open source, is it GPL or free as in beer? Apple Public License or some such, I skipped reading it and clicked OK. C

Re: The streaming bit, WAS How to make AVI into etc

2007-03-19 Thread Don Gould
I've had a read of some of that. Looks really interesting. Once I've worked out how to encode things then I think I'll have a look at DSS as well. DSS is open source, is it GPL or free as in beer? Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: Don, since you asked your question you piqued my interest in strea

Re: How to make AVI into ... Some Answers

2007-03-19 Thread Don Gould
If you want to play in this space then knowing about mplayer and mencoder seems to be a place to start. I'm using debian, but there doesn't seem to be a package. Never fear, after the stuff I did last night it wasn't hard to install as all the prerequsits where already present. http://gento

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 2:51 pm, Don Gould wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: >> No you don't. It depends on the player. With mplayer those videos of >> yours >> start to play when the cache is approx 50% full. > > Really, so to make them useful I just have to sort out the compression > then host them j

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: No you don't. It depends on the player. With mplayer those videos of yours start to play when the cache is approx 50% full. Really, so to make them useful I just have to sort out the compression then host them just as files. No streaming required at all? Can people skip f

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 2:31 pm, Don Gould wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: >> Don you can't expect help if you won't give us some realistic info about >> what you want to acheive. > > At present I'm simply trying to learn about the technology. > > As I said previously, my Dad expressed interest in it

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? http://www.pymedia.org/ That looks very useful. I'm off to try and dl it tonight and get it running. You should also look at:- http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ I've se

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: Don you can't expect help if you won't give us some realistic info about what you want to acheive. At present I'm simply trying to learn about the technology. As I said previously, my Dad expressed interest in it the other day. He talked about an idea that I think is abou

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:58 am, Don Gould wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: >> What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do >> you reasonably expect them to have?) > > If you'd browse www.tv3.co.nz or www.tvnz.co.nz then you're a customer > and anyone with that kind of brows

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:07 am, Don Gould wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: >> And whats more anyone with a flash enabled browser (ie anyone but me on >> my >> freebsd laptop :-) ) can stream it! > > I don't want to rule you out just because you choose FreeBSD. You won't, FreeBSD users can general

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:07 am, Don Gould wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: >> And whats more anyone with a flash enabled browser (ie anyone but me on >> my >> freebsd laptop :-) ) can stream it! > > I don't want to rule you out just because you choose FreeBSD. You won't, FreeBSD users can general

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: > Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? http://www.pymedia.org/ You should also look at:- http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ -- CS

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: And whats more anyone with a flash enabled browser (ie anyone but me on my freebsd laptop :-) ) can stream it! I don't want to rule you out just because you choose FreeBSD. -- Don Gould www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/funny www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do you reasonably expect them to have?) If you'd browse www.tv3.co.nz or www.tvnz.co.nz then you're a customer and anyone with that kind of browser. What is your bandwidth to that audience? The band

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:50 am, Nick Rout wrote: > What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do > you reasonably expect them to have?) What is your bandwidth to that > audience? How many of that audience do you reasonably expect to stream to > at one time? > > Have you c

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do you reasonably expect them to have?) What is your bandwidth to that audience? How many of that audience do you reasonably expect to stream to at one time? Have you considered youtube or any of the similar services? They have m

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
I await your unconfustion with baited fingers Nick Rout wrote: Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? Cheers Don avidemux, but hold on because most of the streaming software I am looking at handles .mp4 files it would seem. Actually i am confused, but its bed time s

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? Cheers Don avidemux, but hold on because most of the streaming software I am looking at handles .mp4 files it would seem. Actually i am confused, but its bed time so I will stay confused for a while.

Re: The streaming bit, WAS How to make AVI into etc

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Thanks Nick, I'm also just reading the transcode site. I assume the answer to my last question might be there. Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: Don, since you asked your question you piqued my interest in streaming servers and I am aking a look at Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version o

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: I see that they are mjpg with pcm audio - in other words BIG. Try converting the sound to mp3 and the video to xvid to start with. vlc will stream On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:41, Don Gould wrote: www.bowenvale.co.nz/vid

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Thanks I got it installed, though don't know if it will work. I have now tracked down the avimerge thing and joined the files Cheers Don Lee Begg wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2007 22:13, Don Gould wrote: Will an error prevent me from installing? ERROR: option '--enable-lame' failed: cannot com

Re: The streaming bit, WAS How to make AVI into etc

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
Don, since you asked your question you piqued my interest in streaming servers and I am aking a look at Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version of Qucktime Streaming Server. I have it sort of running on FreeBSD (there is a port) but I am having difficulty. However I am yet to read this

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-18 Thread Lee Begg
On Sunday 18 March 2007 22:13, Don Gould wrote: > Will an error prevent me from installing? > > ERROR: option '--enable-lame' failed: cannot compile and run a test program > lame.h can be found in the following packages: >lame http://www.mp3dev.org/ > > Do I care about this error? It says err

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Will an error prevent me from installing? ERROR: option '--enable-lame' failed: cannot compile and run a test program lame.h can be found in the following packages: lame http://www.mp3dev.org/ Do I care about this error? compaq-pro:~/video# locate lame.h /root/video/lame-3.97/include/lame.h

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Don Gould wrote: libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation file

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Lee Begg
On Sunday 18 March 2007 19:29, Don Gould wrote: > missing bits... > > configure: error: transcode depends on libz, but cannot links against libz > compaq-pro:~/video/transcode-1.0.2# > > What should I install? Most likely: zlib1g and zlib1g-dev When compiling things and there are things it doesn'

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > > libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files > > libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files > > libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation files > > libzvbi0 - video Bl

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Sorry Nick, compaq-pro is running debian sarge Nick Rout wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:00, Don Gould wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f61000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000)

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:00, Don Gould wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode > > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f61000) > > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000) > > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7eff000) > >

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:02, Don Gould wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > > libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files > > libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files > > libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation files > > libzvbi0

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:00, Don Gould wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode > > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f61000) > > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000) > > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7eff000) > >

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Don Gould wrote: libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation files libzvbi0 - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - runtime files Are the

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f61000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7eff000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7eed000) I understood I have t

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-17 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: > missing bits... > > configure: error: transcode depends on libz, but cannot links against libz > compaq-pro:~/video/transcode-1.0.2# > > What should I install? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f61000) libp

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-17 Thread Don Gould
missing bits... configure: error: transcode depends on libz, but cannot links against libz compaq-pro:~/video/transcode-1.0.2# What should I install? compaq-pro:~# apt-cache search libz libgnome-perl - Perl module for the gnome and zvt libraries libruby1.8 - Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-17 Thread Don Gould
Thank Nick, I'm happy to do the reading, I just had no idea at all where to start. Guess I'm off to use man now :) Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: I see that they are mjpg with pcm audio - in other words BIG. Try converting the sound to mp3 and the video to xvid to start with. vlc will stream

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
I see that they are mjpg with pcm audio - in other words BIG. Try converting the sound to mp3 and the video to xvid to start with. vlc will stream On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:41, Don Gould wrote: > www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0002.AVI > www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0003.AVI > www.bowenvale.co.

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:32, Don Gould wrote: > I want to join 4 AVI files I made this afternoon. avimerge from the transcode package > > I then want to host the movie on my web site as a streaming file that > people can view. ie - I don't want the user to have to download the > whole thing be

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-17 Thread Don Gould
www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0002.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0003.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0004.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0005.AVI ' Don Gould wrote: I want to join 4 AVI files I made this afternoon. I then want to host the movie on my web site as a streaming file that

How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-17 Thread Don Gould
I want to join 4 AVI files I made this afternoon. I then want to host the movie on my web site as a streaming file that people can view. ie - I don't want the user to have to download the whole thing before they can start watching like you do with a mpg file. Can anyone point me in the right