[Ffmpeg-cvslog] Re: ffmpeg-cvslog Digest, Vol 20, Issue 21

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

(yes, I'm feeding the troll)

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:51:17PM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> 
>>>From: Nico Sabbi <nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it>
>>>indeed: in every single mmedia program I've seen so far
>>>the demuxer for matroska is by far the largest and most
>>>full of special cases to handle separately
>>
>>Oh boy. Not again...
>>
>>Let me see, Matroska handles more formats than any other format,
> 
> 
> Blatently FALSE, it handles the fewest. Only the few that are
> explicitly supported. Unless you count the nasty DShow-in-MKV
> abomination. OTOH NUT supports every format _without_ special casing.
> But even crappy containers support more than MKV.

But NUT is still vaporware: the spec is so ultra-wonderfully good that
the very ppl who wrote it do not seem to be able to come to the point
to have a working version of a muxer/demuxer that supports all the
things it claims to support (last time I checked, nutmerge only
supports MPEG4-ASP video, MP3, and vorbis).

Once NUT a working implementation of NUT is available, maybe it would
be meaningful to compare it to existing containers.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against NUT in general. I just
don't like when ppl claim smth I can't verify.

Guillaume