- Can anyone recommend something to convert AVIs to OGG that will keep the player happy?
I did this conversion last weekend using VLC and made a screenshot of it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Using_VLC_to_convert_video_to_OGG_fo...
But I haven't figured out a way to test if the file is "really" converted or not. So if you could let me know if it "really" works or not that would be cool. :)
Well, for me VLC definitely doesn't work, at least on these files :-( On a truncated video that had been through avidemux, VLC produces a 0 Kb file and exits immediately, with no error. On the raw AVI produced by the camera, VLC crashes with an error, and then for an encore causes a secondary Dr Watson error: --------------------------- DrWatson Fatal Error --------------------------- Dr. Watson was unable to attach to the process. It is possible that process exited before Dr. Watson could attach to it.
Windows 2000 returned error code = 87 The parameter is incorrect. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
[ This was Win 2000 + VLC media player 0.8.6c (wxWidgets interface) ]
But I really like the instructions in that PNG - they were very easy to follow :-)
Also, since I installed VLC and ticked "Mozilla plugin" as a VLC install option, the Java Cortado player has stopped working, it now gives this error when switching to it using the "More..." link underneath the video: --------------------------- Java(TM) Plug-in Fatal Error --------------------------- The Java Runtime Environment cannot be loaded from <\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll> --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
... however the plus side is that the VLC plugin works instead - so easy come, easy go :-)
There is no seek bar and total/elapsed indicator .. Is that on vlc's side or the extension side?
Functionally, the Java and VLC playback methods seem quite similar (there's no bar to jump to a location in the video using VLC plugin though, or elapsed time in VLC for me either though, but the Java plugin has both of these).
(I didn't particularly want to upload the video to Wikimedia as it was just a message for a friend.)
Well I'm not exactly uploading anything massively significant either - a test video of me skiing badly just to see what works & what doesn't.
In short you probably want to use either VLC or ffmpeg2theora. I've recently heard people having some problems getting VLC to produce output.
ffmpeg2theora worked beautifully. You just download it and run it from the command line: ---------------------------------- S:\OGG-videos>ffmpeg2theora-0.19.exe --output ski-out3.ogg MVI_4015_ski-test-old.avi Input #0, avi, from 'MVI_4015_ski-test-old.avi': Duration: 00:00:17.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1250 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 320x240, 15.00 fps(r) Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_u8, 11024 Hz, mono, 88 kb/s Resize: 320x240 0:00:17.00 audio: 28kbps video: 220kbps, time remaining: 00:00:00
S:\OGG-videos> ----------------------------------
And then upload that, and then the video plays: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MVI_4015_ski-test.ogg [ It doesn't give a still image of the video though (at least for me), not sure if it should or not. ] Yay! So, all you aspiring wikimedian lonelygirl15s out there, ffmpeg2theora it is!
-- All the best, Nick.