REENCODE MOVIES WITH THE MIRO VIDEO CONVERTER
After you install the Miro Video Converter (MVC) program, you can put it to work and reencode your movies for HTML5 web browsers. MVC is designed to be very user-friendly and makes it easy to convert your files to the format that you want.
MVC’s pull-down menu lists several options for different formats, but for the purposes of this chapter, you should look at Theora, WebM (vp8), and MP4. These represent the top three codecs that all HTML5 browsers best support. There are additional device-specific formats in the list, but their main purpose is to adjust the size of your video for the device display.
Note that if your original video’s dimensions are too big to fit in a typical web browser window, ...
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