So Mozilla wants an Open Video format for the web.  Yeah well, I want cheap health care for every person on the planet, a pony, and a Red Rider BB gun.  Did these people even talk to Acacia? Let’s start with a clarification, VC1, H.264, and Mpeg2 are all Open. You can go out to [...]

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I have two positions which I am looking to fill at ZillionTV.  The first is part IT administrator, part video engineer.  I’m looking for someone who can replicate my capture and encode environment multiple times in multiple facilities.  An ideal candidate will have experience with SDI/HD-SDI, Sony J-Decks, Windows Server, and Windows Vista.  Experience with [...]

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Western Digital’s 1 terabyte My Book World Edition External Hard Drive will let you back up your Media files but will prevent you from restoring them to a different computer.  Very Fun if you for instance work in a Video Production Studio and want to say Ship a bunch of AVI’s or WMV’s to your [...]

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RMVB is not the most used format out there, which is why if you find a piece of content you want to convert from RMVB to DIVX, Xvid, Mpeg, WMV, MOV, AVI, Mp3 or any other non-Real Media Format you may have a bit of trouble.  Figuring out How to do this for a file [...]

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Downloading Video is getting more and more complex as there are increasingly more formats and more players.  Wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.  To help you out we quickly go over the Anatomy of a Video File The First thing to know about your File is the File Extension.  Most of the [...]

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