It's Elive

To update an earlier blog post I found out that Fraps installs a custom codec. In order to implement responsive video capture they don't have much time to apply compression. The resulting AVI files are massive. Their website recommends tmpgenc (Tsunami Mpeg Encoder), VirtualDub and Windows Movie Maker to compress the video files.

I tried out Cinerella and Enlightment using a LiveCD Linux distribution called Elive. Let me be polite. I was not impressed. I had to raise my eyebrows a sneaky tactic the distro owners decided to use to make money off of open source software. If you want the latest stable version, you have to donate money in order to download it over a decent server. If you choose to download it without donating money, then they send you to a slow server (5 kbps download speed!) that sometimes stalls. Dirty! I opted to download an unstable development version that was available on a mirror site in Indiana (200 kbps download).

Posted at 10:55 PM