Re: mpeg4 and other proprietary formats

["jbk" <user=22@nabble.blu.org>]

 Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Dec 14, 2007 4:50 PM, jbk <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> Nah I'm not looking for a downloader I'm looking for a 
>> converter/filter for streamed media, on the fly conversion 
>> of mpeg4 formats to open formats. 
> 
> In order to do that, you would need to deal with proprietary formats 
> anyways.  Why not just install all the gstreamer codecs, even the 
> bad/ugly ones, and point totem as your interpreter.  It won't help you 
> with Flash video though.  Also, it is simple enough to use 
> ffmpeg/mencoder to transcode videos, and I do it all the time.  You 
> may need to rebuild those packages in order to get the proprietary 
> formats supported...