[ale] looking for a truly Linux friendly camcorder

Jeremy T. Bouse jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net
Tue Dec 8 15:15:27 EST 2009


	I have to agree with Robert (I wonder where he got the idea to get a
flip for his wife)... I've had no problems with the Flip UltraHD I
purchased... Linux sees the device as a standard USB mass storage device
and can just copy the video over and play with Gstreamer.

Robert Coggins wrote:
> I like my wife's flip.  It plays on my ubuntu with no problem
> 
> 
> david w. millians wrote:
>> Daniel Howard wrote:
>>> I've had a tough time getting HD videos to play on my wife's Ubuntu 
>>> laptop that are Quicktime's version of H.264 (AVC), something 
>>> proprietary in the container is preventing the usual medibuntu 
>>> repository codecs from working.
>> Does VLC play it?
>>
>>> I'm looking for a new HD camcorder for her, does anyone know of one that 
>>> does not use the Quicktime format, or is proven to be playable/editable 
>>> in Linux?
>> I already am missing firewire's simplicity at grabbing video. We almost 
>> always have to use the stupid converter programs that come with each of 
>> these devices, and that's just idiotic.


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