[MPlayer-users] Status of snow and nut?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:38:03AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/8/05, Fabio Papa <fn024607 at yahoo.it> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > sorry but I have been out of the loop for too much,
> > and I was wandering what's the status of the 2 much
> > awaited (for me, that is) things in multimedia.
> > Are snow and nut anywhere near usability, yet?
> 
> As far as NUT is concerned, it's being worked on by Oded Shimon for
> several weeks. It currently works in special cases (like MPEG4 ASP +
> MP3 does work, AVC doesn't), so there is still some work to do.

This is slightly misleading. NUT works for anything. However AVI files
are broken and require special handling for each codec, so Oded's
avi-reading nutmerge program only supports a few specific codecs so
far.

Rich