[MPlayer-users] portable video format?

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maybe late I would like to suggust to open source porject relateted do 
Mplayer (and/or ffmpeg) for distribution purposes:

1. you can pack a cd with mplayer exetable, skipping any codec question:

for example, under windows you can use MPUI if you like a User Interface:
http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about

and add a simple "autorun.inf":

[AutoRun]
icon=anyname.ico
open=MPUI.exe
[MPUI]
AutoPlay=1

and in a similar way for linux (I guess) and mac user, even all together 
in one single cd.

2. for web you can use (open source) swf format, even with playback 
control like in FlowPlayer, and thus it will play in any browser with 
flash installed.
http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/. <http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/>
Encoding is quite advanced and you can choose near any resultion and 
bitrate.
Even from command line (example):
"ffmpeg.exe -i test.avi -b 1600 -r 25 -s 640x480 -hq -deinterlace  -ab 
48 -ar 22050 -ac 1  test.flv".

3. (too difficult for me, and maybe not possible) create a "self 
executable file" (i.e. a "Projector") with mplayer.

Regards DR






Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/12/07, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But what about MP4? It's either MPEG-4 or H.264 with AAC, which
>> normally isn't treated so well by Microsoft (I wonder why...) but is
>> beloved by QuickTime (even in Windows). If your target is home users,
>> it's a safe bet that at least a percentage of them have QuickTime
>> (it's required by iTunes, and iTunes is what's used by the iPod, and
>> the iPod has a high level of market penetration). MP4 is also
>> supported by a few other companies, like Sony, and most PMP
>> manufacturers.
>
> seconded. In addition, the creation of MP4 that can be decoded by
> QuickTime is documented in MPlayer documentation:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-quicktime-7.html
>
> Guillaume
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