[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Flaming NUT

[Peter Niemayer]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:07, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:25:19AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 
> [...]

What is really sad is that while the flame-wars move back and
forth between Matroska and NUT advocates, the damned obsolete
".avi" container remains the most used / best supported.

There certainly are advantages in both directions, but the world
would be a better place if _either_ NUT or Matroska would take
AVIs place.

For the average user, the question which media container has
stable software support, available on many platforms including
hardware players, is certainly much more important than
which container may have a little less overhead or a little
more nitty-gritty-features.

I think the flamewars should be postponed until mature, stable,
free encoding/editing/player hardware/cross-platform-software is
available for both formats... meanwhile, all spare time is better
spent on making AVI obsolete, whatever that takes :-)


Cheers,

Peter Niemayer