From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GuVC4-0000TV-0T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:34:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBDEW9ao025280; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:32:09 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBDEU7r7022722 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:30:08 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so189335ugc for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:30:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=DddpomsGFdrCXvURTHVTBNI3pHkJEnD/GbtPcY2L50UKuhOd6vIsI/EBaC5DlPFe3ixkYgajckNDP0EFqrWMve6spsv0hCATphkIw1zx8EsnXFM0oIANMqNVw51jkIKy0VmSbZFAVPDJ4nLnS7EE/83iZOYnemPPwa9eOS13cCc= Received: by 10.67.119.13 with SMTP id w13mr1308215ugm.1166020206980; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy ( [86.140.42.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 5sm719743ugc.2006.12.13.06.30.05; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:30:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Media container formats (was Re: [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:29:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200612112302.40877.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <457F33F2.7090809@digital-trauma.de> <200612130657.55005.bss03@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200612130657.55005.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1825818.73lbS9cdjE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612131429.57958.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a737a03a-5b01-454c-88c3-ea34fcda484d X-Archives-Hash: 58bf5dbcb214fc05339eb2f0e4da0697 --nextPart1825818.73lbS9cdjE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:57, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 16:57, Thomas R=C3=B6sner > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] > > Specifying file size in dvd::rip': > > Then there are containers: mp2 (only mpeg2), mp4 (only mpeg4), avi > > (anything, but limited), ogg (anything), mkv (anything and more, not in > > DVD::Rip last time I checked). > > > > If you don't care about HW players, you might find ogg a better > > container format then avi (uses less space, audio/video don't get out of > > sync as easily, multiple Audio tracks/subtitels supported...). > > A quick comparison can be found at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats . I believe > Matroska should be used whenever possible, but I don't know any any > standalone players that support it right now. There's a matroska USE flag, but as you say, I don't think any (stable)=20 packages use it yet. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1825818.73lbS9cdjE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFgA5l5Fp0QerLYPcRAuUmAJ0She8dBHnUPDkuAjWLcg+su5ntbQCgjbt4 skaWa+2/TtKuJoA+ryg6aeE= =8jOL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1825818.73lbS9cdjE-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list