On Fri, 4 May 2018 08:56:18 -0400 Compn <te...@mi.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2018 14:36:03 +0200, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > FourCC are already split up for avi and mov. Apparently it got > > sabotaged at some point. > > i think mkv re-uses riff list from avi on purpose, as it was meant as a > replacement to avi (and has all the vfw codec tags in the spec). > duplicating mkv and avi seems like a bad idea as they use the same tags. > > https://www.matroska.org/technical/guides/faq/index.html
mkv has a VfW muxing mode, in which it uses AVI headers and FourCCs in the codec data. They're completely separate from normal Matroska codec IDs, which are strings. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel