From c75f51f67c4429d200ade8449a551165cb427173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Niedermayer Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:13:34 +0000 Subject: which codecs does windows support Originally committed as revision 3265 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- doc/faq.texi | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/faq.texi') diff --git a/doc/faq.texi b/doc/faq.texi index 8e8198d851..12d82e18f7 100644 --- a/doc/faq.texi +++ b/doc/faq.texi @@ -57,6 +57,40 @@ GPL. Enable it with @code{./configure --enable-a52}. Take care: by enabling AC3, you automatically change the license of libavcodec from LGPL to GPL. +@section Which codecs are supported by windows ? + +Windows does not support standard formats like mpeg very well, unless you +install some additional codecs + +The following list of video codecs should work on most windows systems +@table @option +@item msmpeg4v2 +.avi/.asf +@item msmpeg4 +.asf only +@item wmv1 +.asf only +@item wmv2 +.asf only +@item mpeg4 +only if you have some mpeg4 codec installed like ffdshow or xvid +@item mpeg1 +.mpg only +@end table +note, asf often uses .wmv or .wma extensions in windows, it should also be +mentioned that asf is patented, so microsoft may sue or threaten users who +use it if they see any reason to do so, it is strongly recommanded to avoid asf +for any use + +The following list of audio codecs should work on most windows systems +@table @option +@item adpcm_ima_wav +@item adpcm_ms +@item pcm +@item mp3 +if some mp3 codec like lame is installed +@end table + @chapter Development @section Are there examples of use of the FFmpeg libraries libavcodec and libavformat ? -- cgit v1.2.3