[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] new section: muxing

[Nico Sabbi]

Guillaume Poirier wrote:

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>>wrong: mpeg FORMAT can store mpeg1/2/4 and sooner or later H264;
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>I didn't know that. When you say format, is it the same as a container?
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yes

>And do you have a idea whether or not not most movie players should be
>able to play a MPEG-4 video muxed into MPEG?
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for sure vlc and tcvp do

>How come not many people use MPEG to mux their videos?
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it's a matter of history, common use, hardware support and editing 
tools:  the encoding craze
began when cpus and software began to be powerful enough to handle it 
almost in real-time
and the only software available at the time was virtualdub, that saved 
(and still saves) only avi,
most of the times with mpeg4video.
Mpeg is still considered by many a special purpose container, although 
it's not
(but it surely sucks in many respects).

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>>in addition here you are confusing video bitstream and format.
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>Sorry, I don't see the problem in the test you quoted. Maybe you'd prefer:
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>+  <application>MEncoder</application> is currently only able to output
>+  a video stream into MPEG and AVI container formats.
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>If it's still not correct, please suggest a better wording.
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mencoder doesn't output only video; what about

<application>MEncoder</application> is currently only able to output
audio and video into MPEG and AVI container formats.