[Ambulant-users] Ambulant Supported Media Format

[Jack Jansen]

On  30-Jul-2008, at 11:37 , CK Ho wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I can't find in any documents mentioning about what media format  
> does Ambulant support.
>
> As i know i tried the following formats and it is not supported by  
> Ambulant:
>
>
> Support: wmv, avi, png, jpg and mp3
>
> Not support: mov, mpeg2-4 and flv.
>
>
> Please kindly help to clarify this whether is there a list of  
> supported format being documented. I think this is really important.
>

The problem is that this is difficult, because of all the variations  
in media playback that Ambulant supports:
- Ambulant on Windows can use DirectX for playback
- Ambulant (post-1.8) on Windows can use ffmpeg for playback
- Ambulant on Mac can use QuickTime for playback
- Ambulant on Mac can use ffmpeg for playback
- Ambulant on Linux uses ffmpeg for playback

At least, for the next release, we support ffmpeg playback on all  
platforms. So, this means we can at least give a list of formats that  
are always supported by Ambulant, on all platforms. That will include  
mpeg-4 (H-264 video and AAC audio) and Ogg-Vorbis and Ogg-Theora.  
These two audio/video should cover most modern video encoded with non- 
proprietary codecs. And we may have a solution for 3GP video as well.


--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma  
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