User:Mso/Open Multimedia

FLOSS Multimedia

Containers

• Matroska (mkv, mka, mks)
• Ogg
• Ogg Media (ogm) - deprecated, you should use ogg or matroska instead

Video Codecs

• dirac
• theora

Audio Codecs

• flac - lossless
• vorbis - lossy

Compatibility Matrix

Reference Files

• matroska + dirac
• matroska + theora
• ogg + dirac
• ogg + theora

Fedora 10 (only video)

Container + Video codec	GStreamer	Xine-lib	MPlayer	VLC	FFmpeg
matroska + dirac	OK	Floating point exception	Unknown/unsupported CodecID V_DIRAC.	unknown codec id=`V_DIRAC'	[matroska @ 0x21d50c0]Unknown/unsupported CodecID V_DIRAC issue #830
matroska + theora	OK	[theora @ 0x96a6620]Missing extradata! bug #159	OK	OK	OK
ogg + dirac	OK	Floating point exception	Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type	buggy (generally works but incredibly slow)	Error while opening file issue #831
ogg + theora	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK