[playogg-discuss] Which tool to encode web video or audio?

[Jaime Alberto Silva]

With the advent of HTML5 and Firefox 3.5 now supporting the video and audio tags I think it would be nice to have a tool to take a video or audio file and convert it to a ogg file suitable for web transmition.

I mean something with preset values for web forecasting that you can tell people: "Just pass your video or audio thought this tool and then you can put in your web page with a video or audio tag" without having to worry about bit-rates and such.

I think something as simple as that can improve a lot the ogg-vorbis proliferation.

Is it possible? Is something like that already available (multiplatform or at least in GNU/Linux)?

I have used VLC and, like in many other tools, there are a lot of options that many people doesn't know how to tune in order to get a web-usable file. Don't get me wrong, I know many options is a good think to have (otherwise I were not using free software) but if you don't know how to use them it can be intimidating.


Jaime Alberto Silva
Socio / Representante Legal
SG Automatización Ltda.
Pereira \ Risaralda \ Colombia