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I'm working on a little project that involves converting old audio and video tapes into an Internet friendly format. I captured the video using a ReplayTV and pulled the MPEG file locally using DVArchive. The challenge is that ReplayTV MPEGs have a slightly off format that makes them impossible to open up in QuickTime. The solution was to reencode the file using ffmpegx, a great little piece of shareware.

It took about a half hour to reencode 10 minutes of video on an G5 iMac. I could then pull the .mov file into QT pro and resize it for the Web.

Very cool stuff.