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<listitem><simpara>
  VOB: This is the MPEG file format on <emphasis role="bold">DVDs</emphasis>.
  It is the same as MPG, plus the capability to contain subtitles or non-MPEG
  (AC3) audio. It contains encoded MPEG2 video and usually AC3 audio, but DTS,
  MP2 and uncompressed LPCM are allowed, too.  Read the
  <link linkend="dvd">DVD section</link>!
  </simpara></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
Series of frames form independent groups in MPEG files. This means that you

<para>
Designed by Microsoft, <emphasis role="bold">AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)</emphasis>
is a widespread 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 and can be as big as
2GB. There exists an extension allowing bigger files called OpenDML. Microsoft
currently strongly discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that
anybody cares.
</para>

<para>
There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio
stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI.

These formats were designed by Apple and can contain any codec, CBR or VBR.
They usually have a <filename>.QT</filename> or <filename>.MOV</filename>
extension. Note that since the MPEG4 group chose QuickTime as the recommended
file format for MPEG4, their MOV files come with a <filename>.MPG</filename> or
<filename>.MP4</filename> extension (Interestingly the video and audio
streams in these files are real MPG and AAC files. Yo can even extract them with the
<option>-dumpvideo</option> and <option>-dumpaudio</option> options.).
</para>

<note>
<para>

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  </simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>
  VOB: This is the MPEG file format on <emphasis role="bold">DVDs</emphasis>.
  It is the same as MPG, plus the capability to contain subtitles or non-MPEG
  (AC3) audio. It contains encoded MPEG2 video and usually AC3 audio, but DTS,
  MP2 and uncompressed LPCM are allowed, too. <emphasis role="bold">Read the
  <link linkend="dvd">DVD section</link></emphasis>!
  </simpara></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
Series of frames form independent groups in MPEG files. This means that you

<para>
Designed by Microsoft, <emphasis role="bold">AVI (Audio Video Interleaved)</emphasis>
is a widespread 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 and can be as big as
2GB, but there exists an extension allowing bigger files called
<emphasis role="bold">OpenDML</emphasis>. Microsoft currently strongly
discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that anybody cares.
</para>

<para>
There is a hack that allows AVI files to contain an Ogg Vorbis audio
stream, but makes them incompatible with standard AVI.

These formats were designed by Apple and can contain any codec, CBR or VBR.
They usually have a <filename>.QT</filename> or <filename>.MOV</filename>
extension. Note that since the MPEG4 group chose QuickTime as the recommended
file format for MPEG4, their MOV files come with a <filename>.MPG</filename> or
<filename>.MP4</filename> extension (Interestingly the video and audio
streams in these files are real MPG and AAC files. You can even extract them with the
<option>-dumpvideo</option> and <option>-dumpaudio</option> options.).
</para>

<note>
<para>