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authorarpi <arpi@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-05-24 00:49:06 +0000
committerarpi <arpi@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-05-24 00:49:06 +0000
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better wording, patch by Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
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@@ -74,8 +74,17 @@ It supports one video stream and 0 to 99 audio streams and can be as big as
M$ currently strongly discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that
anybody cares.<BR>
-<P><B>NOTE:</B> DV cameras can create two types of AVI formats. One is common and
-playable, the other is neither.</P>
+<P>There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio
+ stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI. <B>MPlayer</B>
+ supports playing these files. Seeking is also implemented but severely
+ hampered by badly encoded files with confusing headers. Unfortunately the
+ only encoder currently capable of creating these files, nandub, has this
+ problem.</P>
+
+<P><B>NOTE:</B> DV cameras create raw DV streams that DV grabbing utilities
+convert to two different types of AVI files. The AVI will then contain either
+separate audio and video streams that <B>MPlayer</B> can play or the raw DV
+stream for which support is under development.</P>
<P>There are two kinds of AVI files:</P>
<UL>