Rant number 169
As stated yesterday, I'm on holiday at the end of the week!
This may be a bit of a theme for this week - sorry.
Now, because the holiday is in the UK and because the weather has been known to be 'changeable' I've decided to convert a couple of videos to put on the iPad.
Which has reminded me, what a bloody minefield media formats are.
There are too many cooks in the kitchen of video! Too many indeed.
Avi, Divx, Xvid, Mp2, Mp4, Mkv, Mov, Mpg etc etc. These (and more) are ways of encoding videos, and so you'd think they'd have something in common - and thus they would get along.
They bloody well don't though.
Different pieces of equipment rather inconveniently use different formats and will not touch the others. Simply put, this means that you have to convert items in the wrong format to the right format - which is really not terribly convenient.
Videos are big items you see: generally several hundred mb (average 750mb.) This means that changing the format can take hours and hours. It really is a bind.
Can't people just play nice together and come up with just a couple of successful video formats.
It's really bloody annoying!
Rant over.
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