[MPlayer-users] Status of the NUT container format

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 06:05:56PM +0100, Haakon Riiser wrote:
> I'm getting fed up with the AVI format, and did some investigating
> to find a good replacement.  On paper, the NUT format seems to be
> the best bet, but I've not had much success with it in practice.
> Problems range from completely useless files that mplayer can't do
> anything with (typically after remuxing AVIs or other formats),
> to playable files with a/v sync problems (after recoding other
> formats with appropriate codecs).
> 
> Are people still working on supporting NUT in mplayer/mencoder,
> or did it die due to lack of interest?  And if mplayer doesn't
> support NUT yet, does anything?  From what I've read, NUT was
> designed by mplayer and ffmpeg developers, so I'm guessing that
> support in other players and encoders is even less developed.

There's a good deal of active work on 'releasing' NUT these days.
We're past the stage of incompatible changes, but not quite polished
to the point of publishing. You can follow development on the
nut-devel list, hosted here on mphq.

Rich