Re: other recording-format planned?



On Mo, 2008-03-24 at 14:00 +0100, arph gmx net wrote:
> Patryk Zawadzki schrieb:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, loading is possible, but all the mentioned programs stop working after a few seconds when doing 
> something with the videos recorded with cheese. Try to put a filter on it or even fast 
> forward/backward and then the programs keep hanging.
> > 
> > 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.)
> > 
> 
> If I understand this right, I think converting the recorded video into another format is not a good 
> idea, because this means always a loss of quality. So why not directly record into another format 
> instead of reencoding it after recording?

youre totally right here. well, im not against other formats, but i
would like to have ogg as standard. we could have the possibility to let
the user choose which format he wants. 

daniel

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