[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en mencoder.xml,1.39,1.40

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:53:10AM +0200, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
>> On Apr 1, 2005 1:39 AM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:17:23PM +0100, Guillaume Poirier CVS wrote:
>>>> +  Please note that MEncoder currently can't currently mux Ogg Vorbis files
>>>> +  into a video stream because it can only create AVI and MPEG files.
>>>
>>> What are you trying to say here?  Either you have the distinction
>>> between containers and formats wrong or you are just writing it in a
>>> confusing fashion.  A video or audio stream can be muxed into a file,
>>> but not vice versa.
>>
>> Yes, that's unclear. I think I understand quite well the distinction
>> between a container and a format.
>
> The distinction is between a container and a _codec_.  Please don't use
> the word format, it's overloaded.

But it's not a "codec" either. A codec is software. I don't know a good 
precise term for this; maybe "video compression standard", except that 
it's not necessarily standardized...

--Loren Merritt