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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you |
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> are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without consulting |
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> the other experts out there (who will always outnumber you) |
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Which better container formats were available at the time AVI was |
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released (1992)? The only contemporary container format I'm aware of |
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is RIFF, which came out in 1988. MPEG-1 didn't come out until 1993, |
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which was the same year the Ogg project started. Real's stuff didn't |
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come out until 1995. Matroska was announced a decade later, in 2005. |
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Matroska, MP4 and even OGG are nicer container formats, sure, but they |
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weren't around yet. And even with any of them, it's perfectly possible |
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to accidentally get A/V desync or stuttering if you don't mux your |
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streams properly. |
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(This post draws heavily on Wikipedia for date information, and dates |
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may be considered only as accurate as Wikipedia...) |
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