[MPlayer-users] MP4 file format

Ross claymen at walan.org
Sat Jul 26 06:34:58 CEST 2003


I know anything quicktime is a pain in the ass, but whats wrong with matroska, 
from the looks of it, its a pretty good container format.

- Ross

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:38 am, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:15:45AM -0400, Matthew W. Miller wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:38:32PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> > >I'd like to get rid of the (bbd) avi file format and start using the
> > >mp4 file format (I am not talking about the codecs!).
> >
> > Er... am I missing some finer points of file formats, or is ".mp4" just
> > Quicktime in drag as I've come to understand it?
>
> It's quicktime, with maybe a few very minor changes or something. A
> VERY VERY HORRIBLE format. As I'm sure many people here know, I'm no
> fan of Matroska, but even that would be a better choice than .mp4 for
> the time being...
>
> Rich
>
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