[vorbis] Re: .ogg file extension for both audio and video?

[ChristianHJW]

Beni Cherniavsky wrote:

> At least
> because currently OGM only stores DivX, AFAIK.  Now somebody please
> correct my mistakes, I don't want to spread unchecked FUD :-)...

OGM can store any VCM codecs ( Video Codec Manager, the codec API from 
VfW )in it, not only DivX. The was/is this done by copying the 
BITMAPINFOHEADER and the VIDEOINFOHEADER structs as created/provided by 
Video for Windows ( VfW ) into the Ogg file to be able to identify the 
codecs/stream types. Same goes for audio like MP3, AC3, etc. ( ACM 
codecs ), just that WAVEFORMATEX struct is stored.

This approach is nice on Windows/DirectShow, but not really x-platform, 
the author of the OGMtools ( Moritz 'Mosu' Bunkus ) for Linux can sing a 
song about that ....

Christian

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