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Anyone know of any free software to compress "RAW" AVI files, output format doesn't really matter for as long as it is well suppported on Linux and Windows. Compress is the keyword, found some archaic conversion software, but I need to get some compression as the cam is turning out 1Mbyte/s of AVI file. I'll even accept Windows 98 software. Argh..... Got a new toy - el cheapo USB Digital Camera come Web cam from AGFA for 100GBP. Actually so far I'm quite impressed with the camera, it won't satisfy the David Baileys of the world, but I wanted a Web Cam, and this doubles up nicely so far. Decided to try it out ASAP, so booted the Windows partition on my Laptop. The partition has been steadfastly ignored for about a month as it objected strongly to having two network cards. Install software - reboot - plug in camera switch on - crash (Ala Bill Gates gaff). Try camera again - it works mysteriously... Decide I really need to revive my Wireless networking in Windows to save the piccies to the server. Fiddle around with various bits, not realising that I had disabled the driver in this profile (Why doesn't the GUI stop you fiddling with disabled stuff?!). After several reboots - realise this - enable driver - Windows reboots and stops at starting TCP/IP. Get Windows running again, realise to sort out drivers and stuff it will be easiest to rip out all the current adaptors - removing Wireless adaptor - GPF - urgh what do you do when remove driver doesn't work?!. Urm boot to safe mode, remove adaptor, crash. In all I would say doing relatively normal stuff Windows hung, crashed or rebooted 16 times. During this time I changed and rechanged the wireless networking settings on the Linux gateway perhaps a dozen times with no reboots, no glitches and better error reporting when I chose duff parameters. In the end I downloaded the latest Windows client, and firmware from www.wavelan.com and it finally worked when this went in. I suspect most of the problems lay with the poor quality of the Wavelan software, which still contrasts badly with the public domain drivers for Linux when you look at he ability to set and read configuration of the cards (Although the new stuff looks like a major rewrite of the Windows client tools, and does draw pretty graphs of things the Linux driver only reports as text). However Windows stood resolutely between me and this driver and gave me almost no diagnostics (Unless you count "msgsvr is not responding" as a diagnostic). Anyway clearly time for me to master USB under Linux, but I'm finding the Linux multimedia experience less than dazzling so far. Simon, glad to be back on Linux. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.