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    If you encode such files with mencoder, using -ofps 24 or -ofps 23.98
    is recommended.

  - AVI streams.
    Two kind of RIFF AVI files exists:
    1. interleaved: audio and video content is interlaved. it's faster and
       requires only 1 reading thread, so it's recommended (and mostly used).
    2. non-interleaved: audio and video aren't interleaved, i mean first come
       whole video followed by whole audio. it requires 2 reading process or
       1 reading with lots of seeking. very bad for network or cdrom.
    3. badly interleaved streams: mplayer detects interleaving at startup and
       enables -ni option if it finds non-interleaved content. but sometimes
       the stream seems to be interleaved, but with bad sync so it should be
       played as non-interleaved otherwise you get a-v desync or buffer overflow.

    MPlayer supports 2 kind of timing for AVI files:
    - bps-based: it is based on bitrate/samplerate of video/audio steram.
      this method is used by most players, including avifile and wmp.
      files with broken headers, and files created with VBR audio but not
      vbr-compliant encoder will result a-v desync with this method.
      (mostly at seeking).
    - interleaving-based: note: it can't be used togethwer with -ni

    use VBR audio, but most players expect CBR audio and fails with VBR,
    as VBR is unusual, and Microsoft's AVI specs only describe CBR audio.
    I also note, that most AVI encoders/multiplexers create bad files if
    using VBR audio. only 2 exception (known by me): NaNDub and MEncoder.
    
    FPS: only constant framerate allowed, but it's possib;e to skip frames.

  - ASF streams:
    ASF (active streaming format) comes from Microsoft. they developed two
    variant of ASF, v1.0 and v2.0. v1.0 is used by their media tools (wmp and
    wme) and v2.0 is published and patented :). of course, they differ,

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    If you encode such files with mencoder, using -ofps 24 or -ofps 23.98
    is recommended.

  - AVI streams.
    Two kind of RIFF AVI files exists:
    1. interleaved: audio and video content is interleaved. it's faster and
       requires only 1 reading thread, so it's recommended (and mostly used).
    2. non-interleaved: audio and video aren't interleaved, i mean first come
       whole video followed by whole audio. it requires 2 reading process or
       1 reading with lots of seeking. very bad for network or cdrom.
    3. badly interleaved streams: mplayer detects interleaving at startup and
       enables -ni option if it finds non-interleaved content. but sometimes
       the stream seems to be interleaved, but with bad sync so it should be
       played as non-interleaved otherwise you get a-v desync or buffer overflow.

    MPlayer supports 2 kind of timing for AVI files:
    - bps-based: it is based on bitrate/samplerate of video/audio stream.
      this method is used by most players, including avifile and wmp.
      files with broken headers, and files created with VBR audio but not
      vbr-compliant encoder will result a-v desync with this method.
      (mostly at seeking).
    - interleaving-based: note: it can't be used togethwer with -ni

    use VBR audio, but most players expect CBR audio and fails with VBR,
    as VBR is unusual, and Microsoft's AVI specs only describe CBR audio.
    I also note, that most AVI encoders/multiplexers create bad files if
    using VBR audio. only 2 exception (known by me): NaNDub and MEncoder.
    
    FPS: only constant framerate allowed, but it's possible to skip frames.

  - ASF streams:
    ASF (active streaming format) comes from Microsoft. they developed two
    variant of ASF, v1.0 and v2.0. v1.0 is used by their media tools (wmp and
    wme) and v2.0 is published and patented :). of course, they differ,