[TriEmbed] Amscope Re: H264, wmv or avi for microscope video?

[Pete Soper]

Well, this was made partially moot by H264 giving the appearance of 
being supported but, when configured, the "record button" was not 
enabled (i.e. no joy forthcoming). The clue to that became apparent when 
I realized the config didn't prompt for a title and other info. Switched 
to .wmv, set everything up again, recorded a test video, then when ready 
to do the real deal the Amscope code "core dumped". Looking for an 
update now. I spotted something in Handbrake docs suggesting .avi has 
lost some cool and that's why I picked .wmv.

This Amscope code is as old as my microscope (guestimate five years). I 
hope I can find the microscope serial number. This is with an MU-300 
camera . If anybody knows of OSS that handles this camera I'd be very 
interested. I thrashed the bushes hard long ago and found nothing.

I'm attempting to record the soldering of a wiring harness that's for 
one of the few projects I'm doing these days not involving an NDA or 
client interests I want to protect. This started out as seeming to be 
easy peasy, as I expected to find an easy way to do it. But there was 
none and the work was underbid before I realized larger LEDs would work 
perfectly well (1206 instead of 0603). With the larger LEDs the 
soldering is straight forward, but some techniques I'm using to save 
time and hassle might be of interest. If this works I'll push it to 
YouTube. I have no clue how to add a sound track, but if it did have 
sound it would be something like Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My" followed 
by Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World".

-Pete