Theora

WingedWeasel

Hello all,

This may be better stationed in the tech forum but I figured I'd start here. I am doing some work (amateur stuff at home) with video editing using Pinnacle. Overall it is going "well" but I would like to send the video files to other people via e-mail. I am in the process of organizing a bunch of network stuff at home but I have not gotten around to looking into anything FTP-wise yet.

My next option was to try and compress the video files (which also have sound not strictly video). Not having flash I started google-ing for open source options and came across Theora. I am in the process of trying to get both ubuntu 9.04 home and server running on various machines laying around so I am sort of on this kick to work with this stuff hence why I am leaning towards this.

I am going to be running this on a windows XP box, but before I go nuts downloading all kinds of stuff and pulling hair out when I inevitably screw it up I figured I'd ask if anyone had any experience with this software or anything similar that may be a better option.

Thanks in advance!

Barrakketh

Does the codec itself have to be open source, or just the encoder/decoder? x264 is an OSS implementation of the H.264/AVC codec and is going to be better supported on other machines than Theora is.

WingedWeasel

Barrakketh wrote: »

Does the codec itself have to be open source, or just the encoder/decoder? x264 is an OSS implementation of the H.264/AVC codec and is going to be better supported on other machines than Theora is.

Unfortunately I was away for the weekend and didn't see this until now. No I don't need the codec itself to be open source, I'll check out the one you suggested, thanks!