A bit over a year ago, Deanna and I rescued this cute little guy. His name is "Munch" which is short for any of Munchkin, Monchichi, and Munchausen.
He's doing great, and as a celebration of the nice autumn weather, he wanted to share some out of doors time with you all on YouTube.
I've encoded the video in Ogg/Theora -- an open source audio/video codec that's natively supported in the upcoming Firefox 3.1, using the dead simple Simple Theora Encoder.
What we really need are plug-ins for Windows Movie Maker and iMovie. That would really really rock. If you know of a better GUI app for Mac or Windows with reasonable options for encoding parameters, please let me know in the comments.
(If you're using a Firefox 3.1 nightly build you should see a yellow box to the right and if you mouse over the bottom of it, you should see some player controls become visible. Click the play button and there you have it. If you're not using a capable browser, consider trying out the latest Firefox/Minefield builds.)
Update: Dave Miller mentions in the comments that there exists a plug-in for QuickTime, available for both Mac and Windows, which will let you export into Theora any video that QuickTime can open. The great thing about this option, as opposed to Simple Theora Encoder, is that you can actually use QuickTime to set encoding options. Dave also notes that iMovie will do what ever QuickTime will do so this should work in iMovie as well. Thanks, Dave!!
