Monday 8 October 2007

Street Chess Video

I am attaching a video I recorded on Saturday at Street Chess. It is a 1 minute game between myself and current ACT Womens Champion Alana Chibnall. The quality of the video isn't great, but it does match the quality of the game (I drop a piece, then Alana gives me one back). The game ends with me winning on time. Current Australian Under 18 Girls Champion Emma Guo operated the camera.
It is about 4.5MB in size and runs for almost 2 minutes. I reduced it from a 25MB 3gp file to the smaller MP4 file using mencoder under linux. There is no sound, both to reduce the size of the file, but more importantly, because the recording process didn't pick up much.
Many thanks to Malcolm Tredinnick for the tip on what to use to do this.

3 comments:

Alana Chibnall said...

Damn, you managed to get it to work. Glad the sound didn't work though! :)

Alana Chibnall said...

One other thing, I'm NOT a bullet player, except for ICC.

The blindman said...

There is a very nice windows frontend to mencoder and ffmpeg, which enables just about every video conversion you can imagine.

It's called "SUPER", and it's free:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Download link:
http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe