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I've used to have the same problem both under Windows and Debian. In both cases the success rate was something like 50%. The easiest solution was to use ffmpeg2theora http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/download.html. Works fine and there are plenty of tuning options.

I've tested last Windows nightlies and Dirac doesn't work. How much are they different from .deb nightlies (in the sense - which codecs are enabled)?

I've noticed that for Theora videos (ogg container+theora+vorbis) correct duration is not displayed in VLC media player status bar and stream & media info windows (figures are always heavily bigger). Videos have been coded both with many versions of ffmpeg2theora and thoggen (with older and most...

This page http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_Features_Formats says that Dirac (new high quality and free video codec) is supported in VLC Media Player. Under Debian Testing (Lenny) I've made a testvideo with oggconvert: ogg container + dirac video + vorbis audio (using schroedinger 0.9.0 library). This vi...

Since 0.8.6, the plugin is no longer copied into each browsers 'plugins' folder, but instead a special entry is created in the registry, which tells all those browsers where to find the plugin (which is in VLC directory). Hello, Can you advise what are these registry keys? As I prefer to use 7-zip ...