[MEncoder-users] Ogg Theora and Mencoder

[RC]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:53:10 +0100
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> Even if you use Theora for video, please do _not_ use ogg as
> container, it is a horrible format. There are a lot of saner ones like
> Matroska, nut, even AVI I'd consider better (though that one has
> problems with Vorbis)...

It's just unfortunate that mkv actually has more overhead than Ogg.

And I generally wouldn't recomend creating files that are unnecessarily
incompatible with commonly available software, just to avoid a few
annoyances of dealing with Ogg.