User:Mso/Open Multimedia

FLOSS Multimedia

Containers

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

Video Codecs

• Dirac
• Theora
• Snow (experimental)

Audio Codecs

• FLAC - lossless
• Musepack - lossless
• Vorbis - lossy

Compatibility Matrix

Reference Files

• Dirac in Matroska
• Theora in Matroska
• Dirac in Ogg
• Theora in Ogg

Fedora 10 (only video)

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