[NUT-devel] Fourcc spec

Oded Shimon ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org
Tue Nov 21 08:12:14 CET 2006


On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:13:46PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:13:37PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > strongly opposed to any of the implementation-specific names though.
> > as soon as you go down that path, you wind up with the trouble of
> > players omitting support for certain implementations and then
> > implementations must lie that they're actually a different
> > implementation...
> 
> ok, i really dont mind how the codec tag issue is solved, as long as
> it is
> so lets checkin the sane fourcc table from oded and use that with a
> fallback to the avi-riff tags for muxing and demuxing?

So whats the decision? We commit this table?

- ods15
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NUT Open Container Format fourcc specification 20061117
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Demuxers which support the codec listed MUST support the fourcc listed
here.
Muxers SHOULD use the fourcc listed here for codecs.

Video:
"mp4v"        MPEG-4 Part 2
"h263"        H.263
"h264"        MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264
"snow"        Snow
"drac"        Dirac/Schroedinger
"vc1 "        VC-1


Audio:
"vrbs"        Xiph.org Vorbis
"mp2 "        MP2
"mp3 "        MP3
"ac3 "        AC3
"aac "        AAC/MPEG-4 Part 3
"eac3"        EAC3
"flac"        Free Lossless Audio Codec
"wavp"        WavPack


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