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

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

On Apr 12, 2005 2:57 PM, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> Guillaume Poirier wrote:

> >How come not many people use MPEG to mux their videos?
> >
> >
> 
> 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).

Ok. I guess that for the purpose of coherency, I should explain why we
want to use a different container than AVI (ok, that's done) and MPEG
(?).

My first thought would be that when I was an MPlayer-newbie, I never
managed to mux an existent video file and a audio file into a single
file (and quite frankly, I still don't know how).

That's why I experimented with ogmtools, Avidemux, transcode and mkvtoolnix.
Somehow, the ones I liked the more, from a user point of view, were at
first ogmtools, and later on mkvtools when mkvtools became mature.
So, as I'm the one who is writing this doc (or the one who is merging
it), I write about what I know, which could be a good enough reason
for talking about Matroska only, but I guess we will still have some
users who'd like to do create standalone-players-compatible movie
files so one day or another, I'll have to document how to play around
with AVI and MPEG containers.


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

Ok, fixed on my tree.

Regards,

Guillaume