[vox-tech] wincast tv: video4linux and copying movies

[Mark K. Kim]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Samuel N. Merritt wrote:

> As far as I know, AVI is a container format, not an encoding format.
> Your software is probably just saving raw frames with a little AVI
> container data. You'll need to compress them with a real video codec.
> MPEG-2 isn't the highest-compression thing in the world, but there are
> good open-source implementations.

ummmm... AVI can contain compressed data... xawtv just happens to save it
in non-compressed format.

-Mark


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