Re: [Hampshire] Advice: transcoding HD video for the web

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Author: Alan Pope
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On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 23:44 +0000, Nick Chalk wrote:
> Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???> wrote:
> > By the way avi / flv is just another 'wrapper'
> > so you still have to chose a&v codecs.
> Indeed. The interaction of container and codec
> isn't clear to me.


This video is worth a watch:-

"Anatomy of a Video Codec"
http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=171

http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/171-anatomy.pdf

http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Wed/mel8-171.ogg

It's specific to Ogg/Theora/Vorbis but it certainly explains many of the
common issues of video encoding. Very interesting.

Cheers,
Al.