[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Some cleanup about mencoder.

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:07:13PM +0200, Andriy N. Gritsenko wrote:
>     Hi, D Richard Felker III!
> 
> Sometime (on Saturday, January 18 at 18:22) I've received something...
> >>     If you anyway will want multiple output files (it means multiple
> >> muxer instances because one muxer is for one and only one output file:
> >> you cannot have two muxers for the same file, it's noncense), except
> 
> >As much as it's nonsense, you could want it... Think of
> >ogg-inside-avi.
> 
>     Eh, do you mean ogg-inside-avi or ogm-insige-avi? Ogg (aka vorbis) is
> audio compression format (stream, not container) so it need no muxer but
> OggVorbis compressor (codec). Ogm is container that usually contains some

Read the list archives. It's total nonsense, but there really are
ogg-in-avi files, with a vorbis stream encapsulated inside ogg, which
is in turn inside an avi file. Some idiotic hack done by windows dshow
filter kiddies...

> mpeg4/divx/xvid video and vorbis audio. If you want ogg audio inside avi
> then anyway you need only one muxer. I never hear about the file that has
> one container inside another - IMHO there is no player what can play it.

Both mplayer and WMP play them.

Rich