I have a hodgepodge of movies that are in different formats. They are basically in whatever the native format of the device was. I can't remember them all, but we shot videos with our first Cannon Digital camera, a Flip HD, Panisonic Luminex, and now a Sony HD video camera. Windows will recognize and play them all, but I'm having issues with streaming some of the older files to watch on my TV through my Sony BDP. I get that it only supports X file formats, and I evidently have some movies that aren't supported. So be it. But it also got me wondering if I'd be wise to try and get my videos into commonly used formats that will stand the test of time (whatever that means in the computer world).
Thoughts? Are there 1-2 formats I should be getting my videos into? Any suggestions on cheap or free video converters? I dimly remember reading something where I should not use a program that uses accellerated encoding, but rather let the CPU grind through it. The final quality is supposed to be higher. Any truth to that?
I think my computer should have the horses to pull off video conversion, but I've never done it before and heard it is time consuming. I've got a FX6300 with 8MB ram. It's running at stock now, but I'm set up to push a decent overclock if extra grunt is needed.
Thoughts? Are there 1-2 formats I should be getting my videos into? Any suggestions on cheap or free video converters? I dimly remember reading something where I should not use a program that uses accellerated encoding, but rather let the CPU grind through it. The final quality is supposed to be higher. Any truth to that?
I think my computer should have the horses to pull off video conversion, but I've never done it before and heard it is time consuming. I've got a FX6300 with 8MB ram. It's running at stock now, but I'm set up to push a decent overclock if extra grunt is needed.