On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Anti-Microsoft snark? I thought I was calling you on it. -- :wq
