[COLUG] Geeks and Ducks

[Rob Funk]

William Hooper wrote:
> "The abbreviation 'AVI' stands for 'Audio Video Interlaced'. This video
> format was created by Microsoft, which was introduced along with Windows
> 3.1. AVI, the proprietary format of Microsoft's "Video for Windows"
> application, merely provides a framework for various compression
> algorithms such as Cinepak, Intel Indeo, Microsoft Video 1, Clear Video
> or IVI."

Yeah, that sort of scheme is fairly common.

QuickTime is also a container format that can contain either open or 
proprietary codecs.  QuickTime gets a bad rap due to the most common 
codecs being proprietary, but the format itself is open.

The TIFF image format (er, redundant?) is another container format.

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