From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:08:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91D39D04-E7F9-4E06-A6CA-CF0A8B50C854@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHH9eM5XeVo+COBA=g-6nH--4PiQTe+sVRz5GbZOk0GrkU5_MQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote:
> ...
> I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that one of the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area.
AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to "bitrot", then.
AIUI the AVI specification states a number of valid codecs that can be used; AIUI h264 (for example) is not amongst them.
It will work on some systems (particularly open source) to put h264 / AAC into an AVI - that's not supported on others. So if you need to play the video on a Mac, a games console or a set-top box then you may be in trouble.
As a rule of thumb, most new video-playing devices have hardware h264 support; use .mp4 or .mkv for h264.
> I tried an MP4 renamed as AVI, and it worked.
If you merely renamed the file then you didn't change the container.
http://html5.xoofoo.org/video.html
A Linux video player will probably ignore the file extension - it'll figure out what kind of container you used based on the file's header bytes and on the file structure. The default video player installed on Windows or Mac may not be so clever.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-02 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-30 2:04 [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation Francisco Ares
2012-12-30 2:11 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-30 11:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno J. Silva
2012-12-30 23:35 ` Francisco Ares
2012-12-31 4:27 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-01-01 15:16 ` Francisco Ares
2013-01-01 22:57 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-01-01 22:13 ` Nuno J. Silva
2012-12-30 23:36 ` Francisco Ares
2012-12-31 22:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2013-01-01 15:22 ` Francisco Ares
2013-01-02 21:08 ` Stroller [this message]
2013-01-02 21:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno J. Silva
2013-01-01 22:19 ` Nuno J. Silva
2013-01-02 0:45 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-02 16:29 ` Francisco Ares
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=91D39D04-E7F9-4E06-A6CA-CF0A8B50C854@stellar.eclipse.co.uk \
--to=stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox