[MPlayer-users] can't play DV files

[Heitzso]

>> Depends on what you want to do. If you're just *viewing* video, it 
>> might be a good idea. DV files are pretty huge, and XviD/Ogg gets 
>> pretty decent compression to quality. But, if you want to edit it, 
>> bad idea. XviD will waste needless processing cycles plus you'll lose 
>> quality.
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> I just want to encode, that's all....
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Look at transcode, it's a front end for lots of libraries and other tools.