Title says it all.. Well almost.. This is the third video I made, converted from the MJPEG movie format created on my camera (Olympus SP-510UZ), transfered to Ubuntu (Ubuntu like Windows XP will recognize a device the minute it is connected and ask you if you want files transferred to it). MJPEG file converted to OGG Theora/Vorbis. Theora BTW, is a video format that is a basic part of OGG, Vorbis is the Audio format used within OGG. Since OGG is a container format, it's possible, I guess, that other codecs for other video and audio formats could be contained in OGG.. Anyhow, this video I uploaded here, was uploaded in OGG format to youtube. Remember if you put your content into a open source, open format, like OGG, it can't be made obsolete no matter what Microsoft and Apple decide to do.. You may think that you will have quicktimes and WMV files forever, but these formats are made to only be used on Windows and MacOS.. But OGG will run on anything that has OGG's software compiled on it. That means pretty much any and everything.. I don't know what format the HD content I was showing is in, but it's cool!! And I obtained the player and Ubuntu, for free.. Nothing you are seeing in this video cost me anything, except for the hardware.. My machine configuration: Dell Dimension 9150, Using Motherboard Sound Chip (I have a Creative X-Fi, but Linux device drivers will not be available until the Creative development team gets done making the Vista drivers), 2.8Ghz Pentium D, NVidia 6800 XT (I saw in Tiger Direct a Nvidia 8600 GSX? Selling for about 130 dollars). In Beryl (Linux's answering to Vista's unique windowing environment) I get 100Fps frame rate, in a dual-head environment, with rain, particle effects, transparent windows atop a 3D cube and environment map.. Anyhow, I also have Windows XP, I can still boot into.. 2.5 GB of ram, but for Ubuntu I can barely get it to use 700 Megs.. Although if I wanted to I could fire up blender-3D and shoot out a awesome fluid simulation or a massive ray-tracingm and use up all that RAM. In this video I was around 500 megs.. The HD was full frame-rate, 16-bit sound, I mean impressive video.. And the neither the video nor the DVD burning process skipped or coughed.. BTW, I used OggConvert to convert from a Quicktime MJPEG format to OGG.. It was so easy all I had to do was find the input file, I dragged it atop OggConvert on the area where the input file goes, then I adjusted two sliders, and hit a button that says "Convert".. That's it, I kid you not, it was just that easy.. To install OggConvert, just involved me going to the OggConvert website and clicking on the "http://..OggConvert...deb" line and Ubuntu asks "open with GNU Package Manager?" , yes, it installs, no reboot, nothing.. I can instantly start using it.. That's so cooll!! PS- I'm hyping a little, it took me sifting through about 20 applications to find a video converter.. There is supposedly a way to convert any video file to any other video with "ffmpeg" but it involved working on a command console.. This OggConvert is so much easier, and considering it is more widely supported that Quicktime or Windows Media (and it is getting even wider), it made more sense to just go with OGG than to convert it to WMV or Quicktime which don't offer me anything special, since I'm going to YouTube with this.. BTW, My Samsung Yp-T9 supposedly supports OGG format.. I'm aching to see if I can get video content on it without using Samsung Media Studio, if so, you Macintosh and Linux users will have a way to use the T9 without need for Media Studio, which only runs on Windows. To upgrade the T9, you don't need Windows, you just have to unzip some files into the top level directory of the T9, and the last several firmware upgrades included added support for OGG. But I don't know if that just means OGG Vorbis (Audio) or if it also means OGG Theora (video). I know the T9 uses a flavor of XVID (hint: DIVX spelled backwards), XVID was a off-shoot of the DIVX sources before it became a commercial codec for Windows.. XVID is open source like OGG, and I think OGG probably has a special place for XVID in the format, but I don't know.. Anyhow, enjoy the demonstration..