[MPlayer-users] audio in avi

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:40:32PM -0400, gabor wrote:
> > > 2. vbr/abr mp3. is that safe? is the final avi playable on windows?
> > it's a hack, but works with any decent windows players, including wmp
> > some old win32 video editing tools dislike it
> > dunno about osx etc
> 
> so we can say this is the recommended?

I would say yes. Other opinions, anyone?

> > 
> > > 3. vorbis audio ( in an avi) ... does it work? is that correct?
> > dunno, tehre are several variants, the first mode never worked,
> > but i've seen other samples that works more-or-less, but i'm pretty sure
> > it's a big messy nasty hack and only mplayer and windows players supporting
> > the dshow ogg filter can play that
> 
> btw. is ogg-muxing (i'm talking about ogg-containers not vorbis audio) +
> corrections to the ogg-playing(it has problems)  planned?
> 
> or you think that that ogg with video thing is too undocumented and
> mplayer won't support it?

MPlayer already supports it, and you can make such files with the
"ogmmerge" program. Search the mplayer-dev-eng archives for a url.
Eventually mencoder should generate such files directly, but that will
have to wait for the new muxer layer.

Rich