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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I tested the first mplayer (for PII or later) and the third version 
> (for any pentium) on a chiropractic video clip from 
> www.chironhealth.com said to be 1 min long.  It had no sound and it 
> was .rm (realmedia) format.  (It took me five minutes to find a 
> non-porno clip and I had to search on video clip instead of free 
> download mpg!).  Both players played it in 24 seconds from start to 
> finish.  It was less boring at this speed.
> 
> This was a very small, low-quality clip, 398K.  Is it a conclusive 
> enough test that we can all drop the first two versions now?

Probably not, but when you combine it with other observations, you
can make the conclusion that #3 is superior or equal to #1 and #2
in every way. I've dropped the first two. Everyone else probably
can, too.

> I ran across various Windows programs that convert between formats.

mencoder (which comes with MPlayer) does that job.

>   Is there a native linux video format?

Not really. Ogg Theora (with Vorbis audio) is mainly used on Linux,
but it's far from popular. MPEG is mostly platform-independent. AVI
originated on Windows, MOV on Macs, and of course there are all of
the proprietary A/V formats (RM, ASF, WMV)

David

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