diff --git a/DOCS/formats.html b/DOCS/formats.html index b4f6c61593..8cc132d77f 100644 --- a/DOCS/formats.html +++ b/DOCS/formats.html @@ -74,8 +74,17 @@ It supports one video stream and 0 to 99 audio streams and can be as big as M$ currently strongly discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that anybody cares.
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NOTE: DV cameras can create two types of AVI formats. One is common and -playable, the other is neither.

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There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio + stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI. MPlayer + supports playing these files. Seeking is also implemented but severely + hampered by badly encoded files with confusing headers. Unfortunately the + only encoder currently capable of creating these files, nandub, has this + problem.

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NOTE: DV cameras create raw DV streams that DV grabbing utilities +convert to two different types of AVI files. The AVI will then contain either +separate audio and video streams that MPlayer can play or the raw DV +stream for which support is under development.

There are two kinds of AVI files: