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JavaJones:
Both of the ones I use most are somewhat controversial and have their downsides, but I've not found anything better than their combined capabilities. Both use open source software in the back end to do all the "heavy lifting" and both have quirky, arguably crappy user interfaces. But they each can generally load most of what you throw at them and they have lots of output options. The trade-off is somewhat quirky operation at times, and perhaps *too many* options that can be difficult to understand if you don't know what you're doing (depending on the UI mode chosen; I think they both have "simplified" UI options that don't show all choices).

First is SUPER: http://www.brothersoft.com/super-59461.html
I link to Brothersoft because SUPER's actual site is notoriously difficult to navigate and find the download on.

The other is MediaCoder:
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/

Both are free, I think both probably have optional bundled software in their installers too, just as most of these apps unfortunately do.

- Oshyan

Curt:
-the link to Brothersoft is to a downloader of the program...

Better links are http://www.filehippo.com/download_super/
or a direct link to the exe: http://www.erightsoft.biz/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe !!

Super is really good, weird but good, but hasn't been updated for half a year, which is for quite long, compared to how frequently it used to be maintained. Is the company finally being punished for their retarded site layout?

Curt:
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barney:
Whew!

Finally back in front of the keyboard!

And way too many links to follow  ;D.

OK, somehow either I or the first converter or two (2) I tried corrupted the original file.  I restored it, and FreeMake worked just fine. 

So I now have something starting to be usable.  I need to kill the sound, though.  This is going to be embedded on a Web page, so it needs to autostart, autoloop, and be quiet.  The autostart and autoloop will, presumably, be handled by the player, but I don't know about the sound.  So I prolly need to strip that before loading on the page, right?

As time allows, I'll check that plethora of links and suggestions, see if one (1) of them will strip the sound.  The video is about four (4) seconds of a boat under sail, and the wind noise is atrocious.  There are two (2) short video segments that will be shown, one a view forward along the port side that shows swells, pitch, and bow wake.  The other is a shot inside the cabin which shows water running from a faucet at about a twenty degree angle - the captain used that to estimate boat heel.  The full video will be offered as a link, but the short segments will be, hopefully, looping on each side of the page in 160x120 pixel windows.  Looks, though, that I'll need to re-sync the audio on the linked video - it seems just a hair off, a quarter of a second or so  :huh:.

Now I just have to find a good page on <shudder /> embedding the videos, prolly HTML5 with a Flash fallback.  Ran some preliminary searches, and not wild about the results I've seen so far  :-\.

(And all this while attempting to cope with a very vocal feline tonight  :o.)

JavaJones:
Thanks Curt! It seems my brief "sleuthing" to find a "real link" was for naught. God I hate the download scene these days.

- Oshyan

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