[vlc] AMV format?

Pavlov Konstantin thresh at altlinux.ru
Tue Dec 25 21:28:53 CET 2007


On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:23:59PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> 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

You should probably fix the part of article saying that google code is
working on it; the project's only hosted at google code service, and the
team working on it is not really a google code :)

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