[MPlayer-users] Semi-OT: NUT

[Corey Hickey]

The Wanderer wrote:
> Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
> 
>> Hello. One of the things brought up in the recent überthread were the
>> failings of OGM, and MKV as alternatives to AVI. One thing that was
>> brought up was NUT. I've tried to do some research on NUT, but the
>> information seems rather scarce, as do proper tools for working with
>> NUT. The MPlayer documentation has only a small paragraph, and the
>> NUT homepage has even less.
>>
>> I'm wondering, where can I find some legitimate NUT tools?
> 
> Fully spec-compliant NUT tools have not been released, and in fact (I
> believe) have not been written, because the NUT spec has not yet been
> finalized. One of the MPlayer/etc. developers (Oded Shimon, wasn't it?)
> has been writing libnut, a minimal implementation of the format, as the
> spec approaches its final form; however, I don't know what the current
> state of that code is.
> 
> Currently, the only way that I know of to mux to NUT is to use FFmpeg -
> and the code involved there may still be based on a now-outdated version
> of the spec, which will not be compatible with the final form and so
> will not be demuxable by later FFmpeg/libavformat.

If you want to test it now, I'm sure Oded would like your feedback.

1. svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/trunk
2. read the README

Oded, Rich, or Michael may give you more information, but that should be
enough for you to get started.

-Corey