Nathan Grout
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I’m also interested in knowing about your experiences with Episode’s “One Click Clustering™”. Have you had good results? Is it more stable than Qmaster clusters?
Nathan
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Rich, would you elaborate? What does Episode add to the mix that Compressor and MPEG Streamclip can’t do?
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“??? IMHO OGG is dying/dead. Theora is a very poor and inefficient codec. For those that need free open standard they will likely use WebM (VP8). ”
I’ve had great results with Theora, so I guess I’m not sure what you are talking about. But your comment brings up another interesting question. What are the best options for Webm compression?
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“??? IMHO OGG is dying/dead. Theora is a very poor and inefficient codec. For those that need free open standard they will likely use WebM (VP8). ”
I agree that VP8 is a great codec, but right now, Theora is more prevalent when it comes to browser support (see https://diveintohtml5.org/video.html#what-works). Unfortunately, there isn’t a single web-standard codec. I’d be all for VP8 taking on that role, but it just hasn’t happened yet.
I guess my point is, right now Theora/Ogg is a prevalent form of standards compliant web compression and until that changes, we as video content generators are going to have to support it.
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“Squeeze is encoding the video using Xiph Theora and Ogg for the audio, and gives it an ogg. extension. Yes, the full stop is in right place!? (Strange).
I cannot play back the encoded files though… I get audio, but no picture, so I am not sure if the video is being encoded properly or not.”
If I’m not mistaken, the OGG file extension is for audio only, while OGV is used for video. This might explain why you are only getting audio.
With the use of Theora/OGG by many browsers in the HTML5 standard for video embedding, I have a feeling that we will see lots more clients wanting Theora/OGG encoding. I’ve really been helped in my understanding of HTML5 by this article: https://diveintohtml5.org/video.html, though I haven’t tried the recommendations of this section about batch Theora/OGG encoding: https://diveintohtml5.org/video.html#ffmpeg2theora