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: 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 ... 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 ... 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