[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS formats.html,1.25,1.26

Arpi of Ize arpi at mplayerhq.hu
Fri May 24 02:49:09 CEST 2002


Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS
In directory mail:/var/tmp.root/cvs-serv3518

Modified Files:
	formats.html 
Log Message:
better wording, patch by Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>


Index: formats.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/formats.html,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- formats.html	23 May 2002 20:24:16 -0000	1.25
+++ formats.html	24 May 2002 00:49:06 -0000	1.26
@@ -74,8 +74,17 @@
 M$ currently strongly discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that
 anybody cares.<BR>
 
-<P><B>NOTE:</B> DV cameras can create two types of AVI formats. One is common and
-playable, the other is neither.</P>
+<P>There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio
+  stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI. <B>MPlayer</B>
+  supports playing these files. Seeking is also implemented but severely
+  hampered by badly encoded files with confusing headers. Unfortunately the
+  only encoder currently capable of creating these files, nandub, has this
+  problem.</P>
+
+<P><B>NOTE:</B> DV cameras create raw DV streams that DV grabbing utilities
+convert to two different types of AVI files. The AVI will then contain either
+separate audio and video streams that <B>MPlayer</B> can play or the raw DV
+stream for which support is under development.</P>
 
 <P>There are two kinds of AVI files:</P>
 <UL>




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