I heard some complaints that the Revenge of the COMMoNISTS video I posted last week wasn't playing audio for some. Some tinkering later, and I've now got the Lessig part of that video converted to an AVI which seems to play fine both on my Linux and Windows boxen (ironically, with respect to the contents of this video, I was forced to use the 'Microsoft MPEG-4 v2' video codec to get the video to play on Windows). Please try out the new torrent and let me know if you have any problems (I'm especially interested to hear from mac people, working or otherwise).

As for the process, and for anyone who has purchased a Panasonic Dsnap sv-av50 camera, here's the (linux) command to convert the asf to avi. Be sure to use the 'super fine' (15fps) mode as the 'extra fine' (30fps) can't be played except on Windows as of yet:

mencoder -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -ofps 15 in.asf -o out.avi

This camera is all about convenience and size. It's lacking in recording quality (especially in dim light) and though you can record at 30 frames per second as said above, you'll be the only one able to watch the video (and only if you run Windows).

By Gary Lerhaupt, 08:12 PM in torrents | Comments (1)