NUT Container
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NUT (file-extension: .nut) is a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available multimedia container formats such as AVI, Ogg or Matroska. It aims to be simple, flexible, extensible, compact and error resistant, thus addressing most if not all of the shortcomings present in alternative formats, like excessive CPU and size overhead, file size limit, inability to allow fine grained seeking or restrictions on the type of data they can contain.
[edit] See also
- Container format (digital) definition and article
- Comparison of (audio/video) container formats
- List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs
[edit] Competing technologies
- DivX Media Format from DivX, Inc. (uses .divx as extension), includes support for DVD-Video like menus
- Matroska open source (uses .mkv as extension) includes support for DVD-Video like menus
- MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4, currently support everything NUT does
- OGM ("Ogg Media File" is a container format for video, audio and subtitle streams from Xiph.org, supports everything that ratDVD does except for menus)
- ratDVD closed source proprietary format based on VOB (the DVD-Video container format)
- VOB the container format used in DVD-Video (uses .VOB .IFO and .BUP combined as extensions), this is what ratDVD is based on and thus support everything ratDVD does
[edit] External links
- NUT homepage
- NUT specification
- Mailinglist
- More in the MultimediaWiki
- MPlayer homepage
- FFmpeg homepage
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