On 2005-09-28, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards schreef:
>> There are two issues when it comes to video files:
>>
>> 1) The "container" format. That defines the mechanism used to
>> combine the video and audio data streams into a single byte
>> stream (e.g. a file). This is what is usually denoted by
>> file file suffix. Mpeg, wmv, avi are all container file
>> formats.
>>
>> 2) The "Codec" (coder/decoder) used to encode the information
>> _within_ the audo or video stream. mpeg4, mpeg2, divx are
>> all video codecs mp3, ac3, flac, ogg are audio codecs.
>
> Nitpick: ogg is not an audio codec, but the container format of
> xiph.org. The lossy audio codec used in the project is called vorbis.
> Besides vorbis and flac there's also speex, designed for speech data.
Ah, thanks for the correction. I had always thought that
"ogg/vorbis" was the name of the codec, and it should have
occured to me that ogg was the container format.
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