[nycbug-talk] August Meeting

[pete wright]

On Jun 13, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

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> On Jun 13, 2004, at 4:26 PM, pete wright wrote:
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>> On Jun 13, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>>> On Jun 13, 2004, at 2:03 PM, pete wright wrote:
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>>>> On Jun 12, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Kevin Reiter wrote:
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>>>>>> Big I. . .how about the video. .?  We should get these meetings
>>>>>> digitized and online. ..
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>>>>> I can convert the existing ones to a DivX .avi if any wants me 
>>>>> to...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> heh, this raises a very interesting situation.  how to encode these 
>>>> movies.  from my experience i've had major issues with DivX.  Yes 
>>>> they say it's cross platform, but it seems lately the codecs have 
>>>> been a little flakey.  for example i had a windows user encode a 
>>>> DivX .avi that would not play on any non-windows platform.  most 
>>>> likely the user used an odd codec, but it was still a pain in the 
>>>> a**.  at click3x we usually post movies as quicktimes (yea lame non 
>>>> mac/win32 support) or mpeg2's.  do other folks have any ideas on 
>>>> how we should post video...maybe real format (lame but it is cross 
>>>> platform).
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>>> VLC should probably play QuickTime on Linux.. I haven't personally 
>>> tried this, but they support AAC and presumably MPEG-4 which uses 
>>> the same atom-based format that QuickTime does.
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>> i'm not sure what VLC is :(  we usually use mpeg2 encoding to go 
>> between IRIX/Linux/NT/OSx.  works good, compression not so good tho 
>> :(
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> Google is your friend.
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> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

ah yes the Video Lan Client forgot about that.  didn't think about 
that.  cheers!

-p

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> -bob