On Saturday, 07 February 2009 at 13:06, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > >On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>Remember that OGG is a container and doesn't restrict the choice of > >>codecs. Also Webkit has no native support for gstreamer codecs. it > >>varies by the platform. > >> > >>Rahul > >> > >If I'm not mistaken, I do believe Ogg as a container only supports other > >Xiph-related codecs. > > Dirac was originally developed by BBC but fits into Ogg. Sure, you > cannot fit in arbitrary codecs into arbitrary containers but considering > the world of free and non-patent encumbered codecs, Ogg can fit in, just > fine. On the contrary, you *can* fit arbitrary codecs into well-designed containers like Matroska (even if it's over-engineered) or NUT. Apple Quicktime MOV container is pretty flexible too (and the spec is open). Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
