theora - Oct 2006 - OT: Difference between Ogg and NUT?

Hello,

(Sorry, this is a bit off-topic.)

I was reading some stuff and came across the NUT container data format.
(The NUT website is down... so I could not read up on it.  But perhaps
someone here knows about it.)

Like Ogg and Matroska, NUT also seem to be a Free multimedia container data
format.

But how does it compare to Ogg (and even Matroska)?  Why was it created when
Ogg (and Matroska) already exist?  (Does NUT have different design goals?)

Here's the links for it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUT_Container
http://www.nut.hu/  (was down though)


See ya

-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

    developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
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You might want to try the developers list(it's still seems quite active) 
here:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/nut-devel

Neil.



Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (Sorry, this is a bit off-topic.)
>
> I was reading some stuff and came across the NUT container data 
> format.  (The NUT website is down... so I could not read up on it.  
> But perhaps someone here knows about it.)
>
> Like Ogg and Matroska, NUT also seem to be a Free multimedia container 
> data format.
>
> But how does it compare to Ogg (and even Matroska)?  Why was it 
> created when Ogg (and Matroska) already exist?  (Does NUT have 
> different design goals?)
>
> Here's the links for it...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUT_Container
> http://www.nut.hu/  (was down though)
>
>
> See ya
>
> -- 
>     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
>     charles @ reptile.ca <http://reptile.ca>
>     supercanadian @ gmail.com <http://gmail.com>
>
>     developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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>  
>

NUT's development is stalled.  Their last version was an alpha
release.  I think besides Ogg, the only mature container that is free
software is Matroska.

I'd wish they would have wasted less time creating yet another format,
and instead help improving those that exist already, but that's me
ranting.

Hope that helps,
Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves

On 10/26/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I was reading some stuff and came across the NUT container data format.
> (The NUT website is down... so I could not read up on it.  But perhaps
> someone here knows about it.)
>
> Like Ogg and Matroska, NUT also seem to be a Free multimedia container data
> format.
>
> But how does it compare to Ogg (and even Matroska)?  Why was it created
when
> Ogg (and Matroska) already exist?  (Does NUT have different design goals?)