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/schroedinger
• theora

Audio Codecs

• flac - lossless
• vorbis - lossy

Compatibility Matrix

Reference Files

• matroska + schroedinger
• matroska + theora
• ogg + schroedinger
• ogg + theora

Fedora 10 (only video)

Container + Video codec	gstreamer	xine-lib	mplayer	vlc
matroska + schroedinger	OK	Floating point exception	Unknown/unsupported CodecID V_DIRAC.	unknown codec id=`V_DIRAC'
matroska + theora	OK	[theora @ 0x96a6620]Missing extradata!	OK	OK
ogg + schroedinger	OK	Floating point exception	Ogg stream 0 is of an unknown type	buggy (generally works but incredibly slow)
ogg + theora	OK	OK	OK	OK