[MPlayer-users] Containers

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:06:02PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> >Can you please explain why matroska sucks?
> >This isn't the first negative comment I read about matroska.
> 
> because Matroska handles everything with special cases (read whichever
> mkv demuxer you stumble upon and see how nice it is) and because
> for the sake of "feature-richness" they moved to the transport layer
> what belongs to the application layer (menus, navigation and maybe
> other amenities)

Indeed, I forgot to mention these. :)

> >Do you really suggest nut?
> 
> as long as you target a pc and not a STB there's no reason to avoid nut

Yes and no. Technically we should publish our final spec and whatnot
before we recommend people use it, I think.

> >It seems to me that nobody uses this; there are no examples on internet.
> 
> ffmpeg -i .... output.nut

Be careful of this! Old ffmpeg versions will output experimental
prerelease versions of nut that should not be used and will not be
supported. Does the current version output correct nut? IIRC it only
supports it if libnut is linked..

Rich