[Matroska-cvs] [www] r1067 - trunk/www.matroska.org/data/news
chrishjw at matroska.org
chrishjw at matroska.org
Sat Apr 22 18:13:06 CEST 2006
Author: chrishjw
Date: 2006-04-22 20:12:59 +0400 (Sat, 22 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 1067
Modified:
trunk/www.matroska.org/data/news/index.html.en
Log:
corrections : fb2k was 0.8.3 , not 0.8.4 ; typos
Modified: trunk/www.matroska.org/data/news/index.html.en
===================================================================
--- trunk/www.matroska.org/data/news/index.html.en 2006-04-22 15:48:43 UTC (rev 1066)
+++ trunk/www.matroska.org/data/news/index.html.en 2006-04-22 16:12:59 UTC (rev 1067)
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
packs are showing pretty nicely, that demand is still growing and it's getting
more and more used. The new video compression standard <strong>h.264 (AVC,
MPEG 4 Part 10)</strong>, available in the latest versions of widely used
- video compression programs scuh as <a href="http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/NeroVision_Express_3.html">Nero
- Vision Express</a> and allowing for incredible size/quality ratios, is actually
- one major reason for that :</p>
+ video compression programs such as <a href="http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/NeroVision_Express_3.html">NeroVisionExpress</a>
+ and allowing for incredible size/quality ratios, is actually one major reason
+ for that :</p>
<p>The 'official' container for h.264 according to MPEG4 standard, a container
format derived from Apple's MOV container with the name of MP4, does not
offer official support for AC3 audio, the standard audio in DVDs ! It's
@@ -37,23 +37,23 @@
containing a vobsub (DVD style) or text <strong>subtitles</strong> stream
with it. We also recently improved on support for those files having a varying
number of frames per second, so-called VFR (Variable Framerate) video files,
- in our matroska tools. As this technique is a lot used in Japanese anime,
- the matroska container has more and more developed itself into being the
- standard container for anime fansubs ... and the industry is well aware
- of that !</p>
+ in our matroska tools. As this technique is used a lot in Japanese anime,
+ the matroska container has more and more developed into being the standard
+ container for anime fansubs ... and the industry is well aware of that !</p>
<p>Our menue system has been finalized some time ago, but unfortunately there
is still no complete playback solution available for it. Best support is
currently offered by the great VLC player from the French <a href="http://www.videolan.org">Videolan</a>
team, in its actual version 0.8.4. Besides buttons, most features of the
matroska menue system are supported. A big disappointment to us was the
- fact, that the developers of ratDVD, other than stated, never released the
- sourcecode of their DVD menue navigation DirectShow filter. In our opinion,
- this is clearly a conflict with the GPL license of the libdvdnav library
- (main Linux DVD menue library) they were using for it, but it's definitely
- not our job to clarify this. It seems that it will again be the <a href="http://www.corecodec.com">Corecodec
- Inc.</a> team with their great <a href="http://www.corecoded.com">TCMP</a>
- player who will be first to support the matroska menue system fully, we
- will see what they will come up with. </p>
+ fact, that the developers of ratDVD, other than stated before, never truely
+ released the sourcecode of their DVD menue navigation DirectShow filter.
+ In our opinion, this is clearly a conflict with the GPL license of the libdvdnav
+ library (main Linux DVD menue library) they were using for it, but it's
+ definitely not our job to clarify this. It seems that it will again be the
+ <a href="http://www.corecodec.com">Corecodec Inc.</a> team with their great
+ <a href="http://www.corecoded.com">TCMP</a> player who will be first to
+ support the matroska menue system fully, we will see what they will come
+ up with. </p>
<p><strong>What else can we report :</strong></p>
<p>- Our friends from <a href="http://coreavc.corecodec.com">Corecodec Inc.</a>
have released their fast h.264 DirectShow decoder filter <a href="http://coreavc.corecodec.com">CoreAVC</a>
@@ -86,13 +86,13 @@
before the end of the year ..... maybe then already including basic MKV
support, we will see ! Rest assured, we will keep you updated !</p>
<p>- The well known audio player <a href="http://foobar2000.org/">Foobar2000</a>
- went from version 0.8.4 to 0.9 recently, with major changes to the internal
+ went from version 0.8.3 to 0.9 recently, with major changes to the internal
player architecture and plugin interfaces. We are more than happy, that
a friendly japanese coder and matroska user by the nickname 'Ayana' has
updated the existing matroska plugin to comply with the new interface of
the 0.9 version of the player. It's not in the official installer of the
player yet, you will find it <a href="http://tmp.reharmonize.net/foobar/">here</a>.
- Note that it will ONLY work with the 0.9 version !<br>
+ Note that it will ONLY work with the new 0.9 version !<br>
Foobar2000, although being a dedicated audio player, is enjoying a growing
popularity even amogst video compression fans, because its not only a player
but also a great audio conversion tool, e.g. to go from AC3 to MP3 or Vorbis
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
<p>That's it for the time being, sorry about the long wait for the update.
I hope it will not take another 6 months for us to make a new news entry
here, but we're all just human beings, aren't we ;-) ....</p>
- <p><strong>2005-08-26</strong></p>
+ <h4><strong>2005-08-26</strong></h4>
<p>As our Matroska Pack is gaining more and more popularity, it is time we
take measures to lower the impact of the downloads on our server.The Full
pack is downloaded and installed about 4000 times a day (stats from august,
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