[vorbis] Vorbis Direct Show

[Anthony Arcieri]

>> divx are AVI files with 2 streams - mpeg4 video and mpeg3 audio (which
>> strictly speaking, mpeg3 is illegal for avi because the frames are
>> variable length). i dont see why you couldnt use ogg instead of mpeg3
in
>> the avi (but then its not 'divx ;-)' anymore)

> Please... Mp3, not MPEG-3...
> DiVX ;-) uses _MPEG-1 audio layer 3_ for audio encoding. MPEG-3 is a
> now-dead
> format that should have supported HDTV...

DivX has its own audio codecs, which are binary hacks of the WMA ACM
codecs, in the same way that the DivX video codecs are binary hacks of the
Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 codec.  So true "DivX" is just Microsoft's proprietary
formats with the FCC tags changed.

Tony Arcieri

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