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On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 |
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Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when |
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> > you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without |
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> > consulting the other experts out there (who will always outnumber |
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> > 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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You missed the essence of my post entirely. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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