[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ss][Nn][Oo][Ww] spelling^wbranding

[Matti Hamalainen]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 5/12/05, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > Sorry for bothering, but is there an official spelling or not?  Or is it
> >> > just "I don't care, follow your own preference.", which is also fine.
> >> 
> >>         Conventionally, FOURCCs from AVI files are uppercase. I would vote for
> >> SNOW (and that is the current FOURCC).
> >
> > Yeah, but the fourCC of XviD is XVID, same for DivX, which is DIVX...
> > so that is still not a clear-cut case.
> > Considering what I just wrote, maybe we should call it SnoW? :-)
> 
> Wouldn't 5n0w be better?

Of course. More l33t FourCC would increase interest among warez/subbing 
groups thus 5n0w would become the new de-facto codec, perhaps also making 
NUT the new "container format of the month". ;)

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