[MPlayer-users] portable video format?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 2/12/07, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com> wrote:

> But what about MP4? It's either MPEG-4 or H.264 with AAC, which
> normally isn't treated so well by Microsoft (I wonder why...) but is
> beloved by QuickTime (even in Windows). If your target is home users,
> it's a safe bet that at least a percentage of them have QuickTime
> (it's required by iTunes, and iTunes is what's used by the iPod, and
> the iPod has a high level of market penetration). MP4 is also
> supported by a few other companies, like Sony, and most PMP
> manufacturers.

seconded. In addition, the creation of MP4 that can be decoded by
QuickTime is documented in MPlayer documentation:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-quicktime-7.html

Guillaume