[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] formats.html (again)

[Arpi]

Hi,

> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Arpi wrote:
> 
> > the term 'video format' is also bad... people usually call muxed audio-vid
> eo
> 
> 	I think 'media format' or 'multimedia format' are better terms
> and encompass files that contain video and/or audio.

hmm. multimedia format sounds uncommon for me
and 'media format' which sounds better has different meanings (it's at the
steram layer in mplayer - so media formats are: file, pipe, vcd, dvd, net
etc)

> > mpg, avi and asf are really video _file_ formats
> 
> 	Well, no. All 3 (and QT MOV, notably, and also FILM) are
> potentially mixed media formats. As mentioned above, I would favor the

yes


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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