From b9ab98ea42fc07f407ae5b882695c2193ccec640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:53:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add Ogg post. --- posts/Ogg.mdwn | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/Ogg.mdwn diff --git a/posts/Ogg.mdwn b/posts/Ogg.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1745cb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/Ogg.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +[Ogg][] is an open source multimedia container format (see +[here][open] for why open source formats are a *Good Idea*). +[Ogg/Vorbis][vorbis] is popular for encoding audio, and +[Ogg/Theora/Vorbis][theora] is popular for encoding video. + +You can easily record desktop tutorials encoded in Ogg/Theora/Vorbis +using [recordMyDesktop][] (see my [[screen recording]] post for +details). However, sometimes your recording ends up with a bit of +cruft at the ends that you want to crop out. Enter [oggz][], a simple +tool for minor Ogg stream editing. + +For example, you can quickly extract the first 657 seconds of a video with + + $ oggz chop -e 657 -o output.ogv input.ogv + +You can then add comments using [vorbiscomment][] from the +[vorbis-tools][] package. + + $ vorbiscomment -a input.ogv -t "ARTIST=Some Guy" -t "TITLE=A Title" + +[Ogg]: http://xiph.org/ogg/ +[open]: http://xiph.org/about/ +[vorbis]: http://www.vorbis.com/ +[theora]: http://www.theora.org/faq/#13 +[recordMyDesktop]: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ +[oggz]: http://xiph.org/oggz/ +[vorbiscomment]: http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment +[vorbis-tools]: http://www.xiph.org/downloads/ -- 2.26.2