[Vorbis] [Nico Sabbi] Re: [MPlayer-users] converting .rm video stream to .ogg

[Charles philip Chan]

On 22 Mar 2007, giles at xiph.org wrote:

> The mplayer developers seem to have an irrational obhorrence of Ogg. I
> don't really understand it.

OK, aacording to one mplayer developer, this is the problem:

,----
| to make a long story short: with ogg files you can't make _anything_
| unless you know well the inner working of the audio, video and subtitle
| streams contained therein; this is exactly the opposite approach that
| should be followed when designing a container because every single codec
| type requires special handling; if you want to know how nice is handling
| an ogg file read libmpdemux/demux_ogg.c, but be warned that it drives
| people insane
`----

Can someone comment on this?

Thanks.

Charles

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