[nycbug-talk] August Meeting

[Pete Wright]

Sunny Dubey wrote:

>On Sunday 13 June 2004 02:03 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...
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>>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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>I suggest Xvid+Ogg/Vorbis (aka, the .ogm extension), both are great open 
>source technologies, great compression schemes, and even the warez kiddies 
>love the above combination, heh
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cool i'll have to add that to my bag of tricks.  is this what you all 
use at nylug?

-p

>Sunny Dubey
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