Re: [LAU] cool video tutorial by the xiph guys

From: Antanas Budriūnas <antanasb@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 16:09:55 EEST

Hi,

2010/9/28 Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com>:
> Excerpts from Rustom Mody's message of 2010-09-28 04:16:08 +0200:
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Philipp Überbacher
>> <hollunder@lavabit.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Excerpts from Rustom Mody's message of 2010-09-27 09:08:20 +0200:
>> > > 2010/9/25 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>
>> > >
>> > > > by way of lennart's blog, i came across this very instructive video:
>> > > >
>> > > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/video.html
>> > > >
>> > > > xiph.org's head honcho monty deals with the basics of digital media.
>> > if
>> > > > all that signal theory technobabble has always freaked you out, here's
>> > a way
>> > > > to get your feet wet without too much discomfort.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > Thanks for this.
>> > >
>> > > I am not able to see this (easily) because the arrow (move
>> > forward/backward)
>> > > keys dont work in totem. So is there any tool other than totem to see
>> > webm
>> > > files and/or tools to convert webm format to something else?
>> >
>> > mplayer works fine here (but it seems webm isn't yet associated with
>> > video, well, tab completion doesn't work for that video file).
>> >
>> >
>> totem and firefox work but no seek
>> mplayer bails out with message:
>> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
>> control.
>> Following the config file suggestion in
>> http://linuxindetails.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/failed-to-open-lirc-support-you-will-not-be-able-to-use-your-remote-control/
>> the error message goes but not the error
>
> The lirc error is unrelated, I get that one too, always.
>
>> vlc plays sound no video
>>
>> Surely there must be ways of converting webm to something more standard like
>> avi?
>
> avi is just a container afaik.
>
> My guess is that since webm is rather new, your video software is simply
> too old. I suggest you use the ogg theora version also available on
> http://www.xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml.

On Ubuntu 10.04 Firefox 3.6.10 plays and seeks out of the box.

Antanas
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