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  That is not true. At least not entirely. Contrary to popular belief such a
  file <B>can</B> contain MPEG1 video.</P>

<P>You see, a <B>codec</B> is not the same as a <B>file format</B>.<BR>
  Examples of video <B>codecs</B> are: MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX, Indeo5, 3ivx.<BR>
  Examples of file <B>formats</B> are: MPG, AVI, ASF.<BR>
</P>

<P>In theory, you can put an OpenDivX video and MP3 audio into an <B>MPG</B>
  format file. However, most players will not play it, since they expect MPEG1
  video and MP2 audio (unlike <B>AVI</B>, <B>MPG</B> does not have the
  necessary fields to describe its video and audio streams). Or you might put

  multipurpose format currently used mostly for DivX and DivX4 video. It has
  many known drawbacks and shortcomings (for example in streaming). It
  supports one video stream and 0 to 99 audio streams. File size is limited to
  2GB, but there exists an extension allowing bigger files called
  <B>OpenDMS</B>. Microsoft currently strongly discourages its use and
  encourages ASF/WMV. Not that anybody cares.<BR>

<P>There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio
  stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI. <B>MPlayer</B>
  supports playing these files. Seeking is also implemented but severely
  hampered by badly encoded files with confusing headers. Unfortunately the

<P><A HREF="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net">yuv4mpeg / yuv4mpeg2</A> is a file
  format used by the <A HREF="http://mjpeg.sf.net">mjpegtools programs</A>. 
  You can grab, produce, filter or encode video in this format using these
  tools.  The file format is really a sequence of uncompressed YUV 4:2:0
  images.
</P>


<P><B><A NAME="film">2.1.1.10 FILM files</A></B></P>

<P>This format is used on old Sega Saturn CD-Rom games.</P>

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  That is not true. At least not entirely. Contrary to popular belief such a
  file <B>can</B> contain MPEG1 video.</P>

<P>You see, a <B>codec</B> is not the same as a <B>file format</B>.<BR>
  Examples of video <B>codecs</B> are: MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX, Indeo5, 3ivx.<BR>
  Examples of file <B>formats</B> are: MPG, AVI, ASF.</P>

<P>In theory, you can put an OpenDivX video and MP3 audio into an <B>MPG</B>
  format file. However, most players will not play it, since they expect MPEG1
  video and MP2 audio (unlike <B>AVI</B>, <B>MPG</B> does not have the
  necessary fields to describe its video and audio streams). Or you might put

  multipurpose format currently used mostly for DivX and DivX4 video. It has
  many known drawbacks and shortcomings (for example in streaming). It
  supports one video stream and 0 to 99 audio streams. File size is limited to
  2GB, but there exists an extension allowing bigger files called
  <B>OpenDMS</B>. Microsoft currently strongly discourages its use and
  encourages ASF/WMV. Not that anybody cares.</P>

<P>There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio
  stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI. <B>MPlayer</B>
  supports playing these files. Seeking is also implemented but severely
  hampered by badly encoded files with confusing headers. Unfortunately the

<P><A HREF="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net">yuv4mpeg / yuv4mpeg2</A> is a file
  format used by the <A HREF="http://mjpeg.sf.net">mjpegtools programs</A>. 
  You can grab, produce, filter or encode video in this format using these
  tools.  The file format is really a sequence of uncompressed YUV 4:2:0
  images.</P>


<P><B><A NAME="film">2.1.1.10 FILM files</A></B></P>

<P>This format is used on old Sega Saturn CD-Rom games.</P>