[FFmpeg-user] What video formats to support?

[Andrew Berg]

On 2011.06.01 06:39 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> The problem is that some players on Ebay say that they support MPEG4,
> but mention that they don't support h264. That seems to contract the
> statement that supporting a codec means supporting all implementations
> of the codec. Is there a fine manual that I should be reading to
> explain all this?
AVC/H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2 (which many call MPEG-4 video, even though
that can easily be confused with the MP4 container, which often holds
AVC video) are two completely different standards. Wikipedia is pretty
helpful.
> Then h264 isn't a codec? Wikipedia implies that it is:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264
It's a standard. There are several implementations of this standard
(e.g. x264), which would be considered codecs.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec.