A better vid than the last

[chicken]

MPlayer, VLC, and other media players will play most video formats on most platforms. So I've decided to give up on windows media player and some other formats, and now just have avi, mov, real, mpeg-4. But email me if you have more ideas. Anyway, each vid is better than the last (yeah, the W&H one sucked), but still amateurish and in need of beta-ing.

So if you are a vidder, or just a geek, please watch and beta if you feel like it, the new vid my bunnyohare and I have attempted: Mini!Puppet!. We both know we'll never reach the awesome quality and creativity of people like mpoetess but it is still fun.

A note to aspiring Mac OS X vidders: Mencoder kicks ass for exporting to AVI. I wasn't able to get nearly as good a rate of compression with either QuickTime Pro or iMovie (those suckers produced files as big as 35 MB as compared to the 8 MB I got out of Mencoder). Also, and you all know this, Real is pretty terrible (and there isn't even a version of RealProducer for OS X at all, you have to barf your way down to Classic/OS 9). Oh, and OSeX is the kickass-ed friend of all, what a nifty piece of software. Anyway, don't let the Windows people tell you it can't be done, because it can be.

Comments

[keever.livejournal.com]

I downloaded it, but I need my personal sysadmin to help me to play it. He's been busy, though. But soon!

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Are you using MPlayer? -- "The Movie Player For Linux" ? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html

Just curious to know what everyone is using.

[keever.livejournal.com]

I think I have it downloaded but not installed. I know I've been able to play some mp4's by using the DVD-playing software on my computer, but it didn't work with this one.