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Perian gives InqScribe for Mac access to Flash & more
Posted on February 25th, 2010 No commentsPerian 1.2 is out, and highly recommended for users of InqScribe on MacOS. A free, open-source QuickTime component, Perian gives QuickTime– and thus InqScribe– access to many popular media formats, including Flash video (.flv), DivX, 3ivx, and many others. Alas, there is no comparable tool for Windows.
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Dive into Video
Posted on October 16th, 2009 No commentsIf you’re at all interested in where video and audio for the web is going, this chapter by Mark Pilgrim is required reading. Mark does a great job providing background on the core cross-platform codecs that are in use today (with the cross-platform bit ruling out WMV) and talks about how HTML5 will offer native support for video playback.
His focus is primarily on h.264 and Ogg video, since offering video in those two formats will cover all modern browsers. He also describes methods and tools you can use to encode your videos in those formats (including Firefogg, which was new to me, and FFMPEG2Theora for Ogg, and Handbrake for h.264).
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InqScribe and LTC
Posted on April 29th, 2009 No commentsWe’ve added a knowledge base entry discussing the challenges inherent in decoding linear timecode (LTC). In short: InqScribe can’t do it, we’d like to support it, but it’s really hard to do the analog-to-digital conversion. We’ll track alternative solutions on the KB page as we find them.

