Re: cheese output in *avi format?

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

daniel g. siegel schrieb:
> hi!
> 
> at the moment, we just support ogg/theora, which is a quite good format
> when it comes to performance and file size. if you want to make an avi
> file out of it, just use a video converter.
> 
> honestly i dont know, whether we should support more movie and image
> formats..

There are some discussion on the gstreamer side to support application to choose
possible & useful output format combinations (muxer + audi/video encoders). One
this is in place it might me easy to support that. Right now I would welcome the
cheese developers to join discussion of what would be the best api for applications.

Stefan

> 
> daniel
> 
> On Di, 2008-11-25 at 11:11 +0100, bartle berlin freenet de wrote:
>> I have installed cheese in a ubuntu intrepid ibex environment. Problem
>>  ist that with a Logitech Communicator STX Webcam it seems to produce
>>  video files of huge dimensions in a strange format that mean one can't
>>  do much with them. (At least they are far to big to be sent to most
>>  email addresses!)
>>
>> How do i get the output in *avi Format for video incl. sound and with a
>>  good deal of compression to make the files small and playable on a
>>  recipients windows/xp machine?
>>
>> If the answer is not simple - please give step by step instructions,
>>  cos I am a relative linux-newbie.
>>
>> Thanx in advance.
>>
>> ron b.
>>
>>
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