Video capture

[MC SE7EN]

capturing video is great, but AVI gets really annoying, especially on a mac..the only way to play it back is by installing extra codecs for QuickTime, and even then its jumpy and not very nice to watch without converting..any possibility of switching to a more universal capture format? like MOV? anyone could play that back in QuickTime with no problem, and quicktime runs on mac and windows..linux users have some way to play it back id imagine, what with it being a popular format and all...

[Alien]

What?

Avi is not a format but a container. Get proper codecs to play what's inside (actually h264 decoder). Mov files are also containers and furthermore they use proprietary codecs like sorenson. Some of these are even unplayable in mplayer because of re problems. Finally, quicktime is not free software and can't be used with nexuiz.

[MC SE7EN]

well, there have to be other 'containers' to capture in..it doesnt have to be MOV..im just saying that playing back the captured videos is very choppy on mac..

[divVerent]

You can always use OGV (in 2.5 it's set by default). VLC plays it back fine, and Firefox 3.1 can play it too.

[MC SE7EN]

it keeps giving me an error message and then going to AVI anyway..something about the capture ogg libraries not being available?

[Alien]

Get this: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/

[MC SE7EN]

thanks..ill give it a go..

[MC SE7EN]

well, quicktime can play back ogg now...nexuiz still wont record in it though...it says the libraries are missing..

[alpha]

Get proper codecs to play what's inside (actually h264 decoder).

It's actually OGG Theora

[Alien]

Not necessarily. Depends on what encoder you use.