# HG changeset patch
# User michael
# Date 1162647215 0
# Node ID 3c3bba8c822b5e032fd782a35fcd5fadfcd220de
# Parent  8db84afbc1c8f0348bfde587951553b7d9da5716
intro

diff -r 8db84afbc1c8 -r 3c3bba8c822b DOCS/tech/nut.txt
--- a/DOCS/tech/nut.txt	Sat Nov 04 12:01:29 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/nut.txt	Sat Nov 04 13:33:35 2006 +0000
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@
 Intro:
 ======
 
+NUT is a Free multimedia container format for storeage of audio, video,
+subtitles and related user defined streams, it provides exact timestamps for
+synchronization and seeking, is simple, has low overhead and can recover
+in case of errors in the stream
+
+other common multimedia container formats are AVI, OGG, Matroska, MP4, MOV
+ASF, MPEG-PS, MPEG-TS
+
+
 Features / goals:
     (supported by the format, not necessarily by a specific implementation)