Author: michael Date: Sat Nov 4 14:33:35 2006 New Revision: 20665 Modified: trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt Log: intro Modified: trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt Sat Nov 4 14:33:35 2006 @@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ Intro: ====== +NUT is a Free multimedia container format for storeage of audio, video, +subtitles and related user defined streams, it provides exact timestamps for +synchronization and seeking, is simple, has low overhead and can recover +in case of errors in the stream + +other common multimedia container formats are AVI, OGG, Matroska, MP4, MOV +ASF, MPEG-PS, MPEG-TS + + Features / goals: (supported by the format, not necessarily by a specific implementation)