Thanks a lot, Tony and Jinx.

I will check out www.virtualdub.org and the other sites.=20

For want of right info, I had kept the job pending for the past 10 days. =
One
post to PIClist and the solution arrives within minutes. Great forum =
with
great people!

Regards,
Bala

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jinx [mailto:joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:10 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Video File Player With Clip Facility
>=20
>=20
> > Sounds like you need VirtualDub. Better than Freeware,
> > it's open source. Check it out. http://www.virtualdub.org/
> >
> > -Tony
>=20
> I'd second that - excellent utility. Does PowerPoint support
> .ram/.rm/ra files ? If so you could also try Real Producer from
> www.real.com. It can crunch an AVI (as produced by Virtual
> Dub eg) down as much as 100:1 in size, although quality is
> getting pretty scrappy at that stage (it's like jpegging), especially
> with action. TMPGenc is another utility worth having. So is
> Camel's MPG Join and Peck's AVI Join. All the above are free
>=20
> The latest version of Media Player (number 9 I think) has most
> of the commonly used codecs bundled, as does DIVX (www.divx.com).
> There are still some clean codec d/l sites around but many seem
> to have gone a bit grubby
>=20
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