Re: Video question

Martial Boniou wrote:
> It's a good question indeed. I think we all should avoid the use of           
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> proprietary codec. It's not in the open software spirit of squeak. I'm        
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> working with Mac, NeXTstep and Linux so I am not able to play WMV9/10         
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> format. Realplayer and Quicktime Sorenson don't work everywhere too.          
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> I'm starting to do videos too; the goal is to build tutorial of seaside       
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> for friends (and soon everybody with my website) who don't know anything      
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> about smalltalk (but java/php). I chose DivX codec. It runs everywhere.       
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> The robot of one of my friend which is built with ARM9 cpu can read it.       
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> So Andrew, choose divx too. It's not a good format for streaming but it       
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> works well and it compressed more. Remember to use easy-to-read font.
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AFAIK, DivX is a proprietary encoder. It may be free for decoding, but
you pay (at least I did!) for the encoder.
Where can you get it for free?

Alternatively, you could use Xvid - it's published under the GNU GPL
license:
http://www.xvid.org/Xvid-Codec.2.0.html
http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.43.0.html

I use it all the time. It's nice, check it out.