As a slightly
more helpful remark, if you don't mind I'll download these
and recode as a couple of different formats. Personally I recommend Ogg
Theora, because it's an entirely free as in (beer|speech) format, with
picture quality and compression roughly equivalent to MPEG4.
It is nowhere near equivalent to MPEG4 (disclaimer: I am a video
compression author/nerd). But yes, it is free. But hardly anything
will play it.
If you want cross-platform, there really is no choice other than MPEG
(MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4). I have yet to see convincing arguments for
formats other than those for simple media distribution.
Jim Leonard (trixter at
oldskool.org)
http://www.oldskool.org/
When I get around to making some more (and better) videos, where I
can actually take my time and do some good stuff, I will post them to
my web site in both MPEG-4(.mp4) and MPEG-1(.mpg). The MPEG-4 seems to
have much better compression than any of the other 5 or 6 formats I've
tried. .WMV seems to be comparable, but is more Microsoft oriented.
Now, back to my original question....
Are there any particular things that people would like me to video?
My system is a PDP-11/40 with RK05, RL01, RL02, RX01, RX02, VT05,
VT52, VT100, LA36, LA120, ASR33. I also have a couple TU56 units
but have not yet hooked them up to the 11/40.
It may be another year before I am in the mood to boot up my system
and do this kind of thing. I get distracted by lots of other things
this time of year with spring planting, etc.
I just know that it would have been helpful for me to see visuals
of some things back when I was putting my system together.
Ashley
http://www.woffordwitch.com