[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Matroska Muxer

[David Conrad]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 8/30/07, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:35:18 +0200
>
>> After this step, you won't be a GSoC student anymore. You'll just be
>> a ffmpeg developer like others ;-)
>>
>> Congratulation !
>
> Indeed, congrats!
>
> David, please give a status report of what audio and video codecs are
> supposed to be supported by your muxer, and also, please give an
> example of how to use your muxer in ffmpeg once it's committed.

All the codecs that the AVI muxer supports are supported by  
extension, as well as theora, vorbis, flac, wavpack, and tta. I could  
make a complete list, but I haven't heard of half the codecs listed  
in codec_bmp_tags/codec_wav_tags... Real codecs aren't supported yet,  
but I do plan on supporting them eventually.

As for using it, pretty much any valid command line that starts with  
ffmpeg and ends with .mkv should work, e.g. "ffmpeg -i blah.ogg - 
vcodec mpeg2video -acodec ac3 blah.mkv" It can also be used from  
mencoder, e.g. "mencoder blah2.avi -ovc lavc -oac faac -of lavf -o  
blah2.mkv" but it's possible to produce invalid files that way.