[WikiEN-l] Tech help: Video format conversion

[Nathan]

I'm getting rather sick of the argument, myself.

A program called "SUPER" (for Windows) can convert it to any format (even 
*cringe* OGG/Theora - though I personally don't understand why not to use DivX 
or XviD as they're widely available, closed source or not - I guess it's 
a "your mileage may vary" type of issue - I go with codecs that are 
widely available). It has its own codecs so it's not dependant on the ones on 
your system. You can get it at http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

It can absolutely convert to OGG/Theora if you want to go with that recommendation.

In case you ask why I didn't suggest it before, I just found it last night.

Just install, wait a little while for it to install, then run. It's simple 
stuff and straightforward.

- Nathan

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Sean Barrett wrote:

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> Gregory Maxwell stated for the record:
> > 
> > The XviD codec is very much patent encumbered. No free mpeg4 codec can
> > exist in the near future. The situation for XviD is actually much
> > worse than MP3. mpeg4 codec licensing is a huge expensive mess.
> > Fortunately Theora has competitive quality/bitrate with mpeg4.
> 
> All of this is very interesting (and believe it or not, I'm not being
> sarcastic).  However, can anyone actually help convert these SWFs?  I've
> installed ffmpeg2theora, but that seems to only change the question to
> "how do I convert a SWF to MPEG2?"
> 
> - --
>  Sean Barrett     | There is absolutely no substitute
>  sean at epoptic.com | for a genuine lack of preparation.
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