Comments on: Four gigabytes, four OSes, one Mac

By: calum

calum — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:10:07 +0000

Sorry… URL is in my other post, or you can download it here

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:02:52 +0000

You mighgt want to actually link to the Ogg version, rather than making people play guess-the-URL.

By: calum

calum — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:10:15 +0000

Dave: I captured the Theora .mov file with Snapz Pro X + XiphQT, opened it QT player, and used the Export function to create the .ogg file.

Although I didn’t alter any of the encoding parameters for the Export, I suspect this did actually re-encode the movie, judging by the length of time it took and a slight degradation of quality compared to the original .mov file.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:00:16 +0000

Just for clarity, did you capture a Theora movie with Snapz Pro X + XiphQT and then change the container with Quicktime Pro without re-encoding the video?

By: calum

calum — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:31:11 +0000

@Arek: D’oh, I never thought of that– I captured the movie using SnapzPro, which while it obviously found the Theora codec, still wrapped it up in a .mov file. I’ll try the Quicktime export now to see if it works…

EDIT: Of course it worked Redux post updated…

By: Arek

Arek — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:17:17 +0000

I’m wondering why haven’t you used the ‘Ogg’ file format for that Theora file? XiphQT comes with the Theora encoder and the Ogg muxer/exporter. If you used QuickTime Player to export the file there should be the ‘Movie to Ogg’ option in the export dialog, or something similar…

Anyway, yay! for using Theora, and for a cool movie, too!

By: calum

calum — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:27:01 +0000

@ Benoît: ah well, did the best I could with the tools I had to hand… was just a bit of a silly whim anyway

By: Benoît Dejean

Benoît Dejean — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:47:57 +0000

Unreadable with VLC.

By: Abram

Abram — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:12:46 +0000

and you choose that suck !!
Wise boy.

By: calum

calum — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:43:27 +0000

@Joseph: Hmm, pity. Guess that’s the trouble with standards, there’s just so many of them