[vlc] AMV format?

[David Gerard]

On 25/12/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/12/2007, Pavlov Konstantin <thresh at altlinux.ru> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 06:48:57PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:

> > > http://code.google.com/p/amv-codec-tools/ looks promising. Says

> > IIRC, this is just a patch to ffmpeg, so should be pretty possible to

> Yes,it's a severely hacked-up version of ffmpeg. I just used it to
> encode a test video, which sort of worked - though I can see why they
> say it's "alpha" ;-) The original was a 6MB WMV, and the AMV was 20MB!
> The aspect ratio was wrong (16:9 to 5:4) and the sound was choppy.


I've updated the (English) Wikipedia entry with what citable
information and useful links there are on this awful format:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMV_video_format


- d.