Okay, over in the "Climber's Talk" forum, "Chunking down", Roger Barnett posted a video he'd captured Tue Jul 16 15:13:40 2002 (local time, likely) with a digicam held vertically. I took a stab at rotating it, but was informed by Leon that it was encoded using a codec he did not have on his system, thus he was unable to play it. I'd not specified any particular codec when re-encoding it, so evidently the software defaulted to the "open" version of DivX. On a second version, I'd specified the same(?) mjpeg codec as was used in Roger's attachment.
How's about letting me know how the various attachments "play" for you all?
I guess it goes without saying that oftentimes folks who do stuff with computers, even professionally, make assumptions about other's working environments which ultimately prove to be untrue.
Taking the example of a web page or "office" document, it's okay to doll things up in certain ways, of course, but one should never assume that others who will view the result will see it exactly as you did. The only (or main, anyway) way to ensure the "experience" remains the same is to use something like PDF. Different web browsers render things slightly differently, and users may or may not have access to particular fonts, they may have a different size screen and/or don't expand the browser window to be full-screen, etc. Also, "word" documents were never designed to render exactly the same (as are PDF) everywhere; "word" is only designed to specifically print a document locally, not, as is often assumed, to render it the same on any other computer at any point in time.
Back to the subject, I used a program called "mencoder", part of the "mplayer" package. For my first effort I'd used the command:<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -vf rotate=2,eq2=1.6 37737-MVI_0159.AVI -o rogers.avi</pre><hr />
and for the second I added the option:<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg</pre><hr />
Have a look at the attached zip file which contains two HTML-ized versions of the unix "man page" for mplayer/mencoder. One is done via the KDE system I use parts of, and the other is done via the "standard" "man page" tools. When you see this, you'll understand why the MS "help" stuff is considered to be so weak and lame by some of us
How's about letting me know how the various attachments "play" for you all?
I guess it goes without saying that oftentimes folks who do stuff with computers, even professionally, make assumptions about other's working environments which ultimately prove to be untrue.
Taking the example of a web page or "office" document, it's okay to doll things up in certain ways, of course, but one should never assume that others who will view the result will see it exactly as you did. The only (or main, anyway) way to ensure the "experience" remains the same is to use something like PDF. Different web browsers render things slightly differently, and users may or may not have access to particular fonts, they may have a different size screen and/or don't expand the browser window to be full-screen, etc. Also, "word" documents were never designed to render exactly the same (as are PDF) everywhere; "word" is only designed to specifically print a document locally, not, as is often assumed, to render it the same on any other computer at any point in time.
Back to the subject, I used a program called "mencoder", part of the "mplayer" package. For my first effort I'd used the command:<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -vf rotate=2,eq2=1.6 37737-MVI_0159.AVI -o rogers.avi</pre><hr />
and for the second I added the option:<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg</pre><hr />
Have a look at the attached zip file which contains two HTML-ized versions of the unix "man page" for mplayer/mencoder. One is done via the KDE system I use parts of, and the other is done via the "standard" "man page" tools. When you see this, you'll understand why the MS "help" stuff is considered to be so weak and lame by some of us
