Re: other recording-format planned?

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:12 PM, daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> wrote:
> hey!
>  On So, 2008-03-23 at 20:43 +0100, arph gmx net wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > it's a very pain to edit the videos recorded with cheese. Neither virtual-dub, avidemux, cinelerra,
>  > Adobe Premiere or kdenlive can handle the files in the right way.
>  yeah ;) gst-ogg is doing some crap sometimes.

Works for me.

The problem is rather with Vorbis/Theora adoption.

>  > Are there plans that the format of the recorded video can be chosen before recording?
>  we had some plans to do that, but after all we just used ogg as it was
>  difficult to get that working on the cpu in realtime. i think we could
>  have several formats, but does that really matter? or is it just because
>  ogg doesnt work perfectly?

ogg is fine, I'd vote for a separate (dedicated) video conversion tool
for GNOME. Also useful if you plan to put your files on some other
devices (phones, PDAs, video consoles etc.)

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution