[MPlayer-users] Re: Ogg (divx vid + vorbis audio)? (Was divx+ogg vorbis)

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Unfortunately, I think this is correct - In addition to the technical
discussion on motion compensation techniques, etc., the other major
thread on the Tarkin mailing list seems to be "Hey, why don't we 
develop this under Apple Quicktime!"  Not everyone on the thread AGREES
with this, but nobody seems to be even considering the obvious(?) step of 
"whipping up" some standards and utilities for working with the Ogg
file format and video...

The "Ogg Tarkin" project, at this rate, may totally ignore the "Ogg"
portion of their name.  This may be just as well - I'm guessing it'll
be years before anything useful outside of academic studies comes of the
Tarkin codec itself at the rate its going (though at least the technical
discussions seem to be getting lively again, so the end result - eventually -
may be really nice).

I'd STILL love to see some readily available tools for [de]multiplexing
other video codecs into Ogg (rumor has it that its design should make
synchronisation of audio and video rather simple, and I get the impression
that the Ogg format is excellent for streaming data [Ogg audio/video for
ffserver, perhaps?]), but as I'm not in a position to do it myself, I don't
know if and when that'll ever happen...)

On Thursday 07 February 2002 10:55 am, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> > I've been following that list for a while. There won't be even an
> > alpha-quality tarkin codec anytime soon.
> >
> > Jason
>
> I think there is some confusion about the topic... what happened is that a
> divx group released a movie that wasn't an avi, but an ogg file, with divx
> video embedded into it. Obviously, the audio is ogg vorbis, but the problem
> with playing the movie is not the combination of an ogg audio stream and a
> divx video stream, nor tarkin video and vorbis audio, but the fact that
> someone has embedded divx into an ogg file, kinda like tarkin was meant to
> be embedded when it would be finished.
>
> Pav