Help wanted: video demo!

[Walter Bender]

The Sesame Street video that runs in the Helix player (RV encoded) is
quite a good demo of full screen video on the laptop.

-walter

On Dec 11, 2007 6:07 PM, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/07, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > We need a demo which shows off the full-screen video capabilities of
> > the XO.  Unfortunately, Record compresses its input rather heavily, so
> > it's not a great demo for video playback.  We bundle the Ogg Theora
> > codecs, and Browse can play media files full-screen, so the first step
> > is for someone to invest some time in transcoding an appropriate demo
> > movie (I suggest
> > http://www.elephantsdream.org/ -- some ogg transcoding linked from
> > http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Elephants_Dream ) to an appropriate bit
> > rate / size for the XO.  Make it look good!
> >
> > It may be that we need to find a higher-performance (but still free)
> > codec or some such to make this really look good.  Help here could be
> > useful, too.
>
> To handle most any digital video format, Quicktime would be easiest to get
> started.
>
> Encode your existing files into DV (using Quicktime pro).
> Use gstreamer to encode into ogg files:
> gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=grover.dv ! dvdemux ! dvdec !
> ffmpegcolorspace ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location= grover.ogg
>
> Of course you will want to alter settings to change the file size, rate,
> etc.  You would make these changes in the gstreamer pipeline or in quicktime
> as a pre-processing step.
>
>
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Walter Bender
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