From 34e1b97eee43557b40b316fb2645f8375aa5766e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: arpi Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:49:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] better wording, patch by Diego Biurrun git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@6176 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/formats.html | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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: