Chris Seberino wrote: > [ Attribution lost ] > > What is it that is frustrating you? Is it the ability to create your own > > videos, to stream live video, or to convert video in other formats like > > VHS to DVD, or something else? > > What is frustrating is the proliferation of video formats. When you > want to listen to audio you know you'll encounter MP3 99% of the > time with some WAV thrown in. You shouldn't have to learn so many > formats for video. I'm not sure why these extra formats even > exist if MPEG4 is so great and the universal format eveyone says it is.
I know of more audio formats than video formats. I *have* more audio formats on my system than I know video formats. Ogg Theora is the video codec you were asking about: http://www.theora.org/ Why do so many formats exist? Why are there so many sound formats? Why are there so many image formats? Each format serves a purpose. Each format has different trade-offs. No one format can be all things for all purposes. If that were the case we would have been down to one CPU, one high level language, and one data format a long time ago. It has not happened yet, and it will never happen. That is why there are so many formats. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
