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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
>
>  
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> >  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)
>  
Of course there is! It's XviD. Very popular clone of the the DivX codec 
except XviD is open source. Very high quality, most online TV shows, 
etc. use it. MPEG is platform independant. AVI is a container format 
which many other formats like MPEG4 (XviD, DivX) or Intel Indeo use. MOV 
is quicktime, and of course there are the rest of the proprietary ones 
you mentioned.

> David
>
>  
Stephen Clement