On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:56:37AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sam, just so i have some extra lingo, what are some other "container > formats" besides AVI?
Quicktime is another one. The Quicktime spec just defines where to store video and audio data within the file, but the spec doesn't define which codec(s) to use. This is why my older mplayer can only play some Quicktime movies. Some of them use Sorenson video codec v3, for which mplayer's support is new. Others use stuff like Sorenson v2, MPEG-2, etc. > also, sometimes i see people write "DivX ;-)". what exactly does that > smiley face mean? and what exactly is DivX anyhow? DivX ;-) is another video codec. The smiley is there to distinguish it from DIVX, which was some harebrained, now-defunct scheme by Circuit City (IIRC) for pay-per-view DVDs. -- Samuel Merritt OpenPGP key is at http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/
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