Posted by sandy58 on 09/28/07 08:16

On Sep 27, 10:42 pm, kj <so...@987jk.com.invalid> wrote:
> I'm looking for a technical reference (or even a textbook) on the
> main container formats out there (AVI, MOV, MP4, Ogg, etc.),
> preferably one that may shed some insight into the design ideas
> behind each format.
>
> (I thought it'd be easy to find this information online, but my
> searches have not yielded anything much better than Wikipedia's
> "container formats" article (which is very little). I must not be
> using the right keywords to pull out the good stuff from the sea
> of unwanted hits.)
>
> I would very much appreciate your suggestions.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> kj
>
> P.S. Can someone recommend a developers' forum for the budding
> video developer?
>
> --
> NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
> and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.

Information on AVI :http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/AVI.html
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/avi/avifileinfo.htm
Information on MP4:http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mpeg4/
Information on Ogg:http://www.xiph.org/downloads/
:http://www.oggwatch.com/info/ogg

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