On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:53 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:42 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > You're mixing apples and oranges. The recordings are in MPEG4 (DIVX or > > XVID, i can't remember) inside an NUV container. > > OK. Good so far then. > > > You can't just > > "recontain" a video > > Why not? The container just holds the audio and video segments/frames > and syncing information doesn't it? > > I am proposing extracting the frames/segments without decoding and > re-encoding them and placing the extracted frames/segments into a new > container. AVI or OGG for example.
You don't really understand much about AVI, though. It contains _no_ syncing information. A straight repack will lose av sync extremely rapidly. ogg's pretty much the same way. > > so you have to re-encode it to another container > > (which is what nuvexport does). > > But why should I have to re-encode the streams just to put them into a > different container? I thought the stream type was independent of the > container. I have put MPEG4 into an OGG container before for example. As long as the containers are relatively equal in capabilities, sure, that's possible. Isaac
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