Codecs

Antonio introduced the subject and talked about bitrates, file containers, and types of encodoing. A new tool for creating encoded files is...

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

This works for PC, Mac and Linux. It can create mpeg4 files with avi, mov, mp4, ogg containers.

We thought as a network we could collaborate on documentation to create avidemux settings / and dowloadable project files and documentation. To make a step by step process for creating.

• a screening quality mp4 file ( like the music videos in Democracy player )
• a screening quality xvid file
• a preview quality mp4 file (like archive.org's preset)