[MEncoder-users] Ogg Theora and Mencoder

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 07:14:47PM -0800, RC wrote:
> 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.

I really doubt this. Ogg has really bad overhead for video.

Rich