[MPlayer-users] Containers, GMC, PSNR, and doom9 (was: divx 6)

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On May 6, 2006, at 11.56, Alexander Noe' wrote:

> Ivan Kowalenko schrieb:
>
>>> Now you've proved your incompetence too. OGM is the absolute worst
>>> container in all respects.
>> I'd call OGM an improvement over AVI. Given that you can at least  
>> use  multiple audio and subtitle streams without breaking it.
>
> Did Koepi tell you that?
>
> AVI has been able to hold 256 streams [1] since it was introduced  
> like 15 years ago. Besides that, you can't use subtitles in any  
> language but english if you want your OGM file to work without  
> forcing the watcher to handle charset stuff.
>
> AVI, on the other hand, works with utf8 subtitles, so there is no  
> problem as long as you don't want to use original klingon. The  
> *only* new thing about OGM was that it worked properly with VFR  
> streams.
>
>
> [1] http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php? 
> s=8558dbc13f1fdb67454c5aca0e529d39&act=ST&f=2&t=11828&hl=stream 
> +numbers

I stand corrected. The thing that confused me (and still does) is  
that every time someone comes on the mailing list with an AVI file  
with a subtitle track in it, they're told that the file is a hack,  
and they'll need to extract the subtitle stream.  If AVI has no  
problem with subtitles, as stated above, then what is the story with  
those "hacked" files? I'm genuinely curious.
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