On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400 Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when > > you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without > > consulting the other experts out there (who will always outnumber > > you) > > Which better container formats were available at the time AVI was > released (1992)? The only contemporary container format I'm aware of > is RIFF, which came out in 1988. MPEG-1 didn't come out until 1993, > which was the same year the Ogg project started. Real's stuff didn't > come out until 1995. Matroska was announced a decade later, in 2005. > > Matroska, MP4 and even OGG are nicer container formats, sure, but they > weren't around yet. And even with any of them, it's perfectly possible > to accidentally get A/V desync or stuttering if you don't mux your > streams properly. > > (This post draws heavily on Wikipedia for date information, and dates > may be considered only as accurate as Wikipedia...) > You missed the essence of my post entirely. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
