Important links concerning new formats ...

[ChristianHJW]

Ogg ( .ogg, .ogm )

Tobias Waldvogels Ogg implementation : http://tobias.everwicked.com

Doom9's Ogg Muxing Guide (http://www.doom9.org/ogg.htm)

Xiphophorus Homepage : http://www.xiph.org

Linux player for OGM : Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/)

Koepi's Ogg Muxing Tool : OggMuxer (http://roeder.goe.net/~koepi/)


MCF ( Multimedia Container Format , .mcf, .video.mcf )

MCF Homepage ( General ) : http://mcf.sourceforge.net

MCF Specifications : http://mcf.sourceforge.net/mcf.htm

MCF Sourceforge Project Page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcf

Ingoralfblums MediaXW Projekt : http://sf.net/projects/mediaxw

Mailinglisten über newsreader : news://gmane.comp.video.mcf.devel
news://gmane.comp.video.mcf.mplayer


XCD and Mode2CD Maker :

De_xt and avih Mode2CD Maker Homepage : http://webs.ono.com/de_xt/mcf.html

De_xt and avih Mode2CD Maker program ( b14.1 ) : Mode2CD Maker (http://es.geocities.com/dextstuff/mcf/mode2cdmaker-141.zip)

De_xt and avih Mode2CD read filter ( Test6b ) : RiffCDXA_filter (http://es.geocities.com/dextstuff/mcf/riff-cdxa-filter-test6b.zip)


MPEG4 ( format )

Doom9's MPEG4 creation Guide (http://www.doom9.org/mp4.htm)

Nic's AAC DirectShowFilter (http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00)

MPEG4IP Homepage : http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net

FFMpeg Homepage : http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net

[Doom9]

why not add them to the Q&A?

[Antimon]

how abotu updatign them......
tolbas moved

http://tobias.everwicked.com/

[ChristianHJW]

I updated it .. there was so much going on in the last weeks. Anything i forgot ?

EDIT : does anybody have all the important MPEG4 links ( MPEG4IP, MP4Creator, etc. ) handy ? Thanks
I will also link directly to Doom9's Guides i guess ...

Edit2 : Done. Still happy to get some other MPEG4 links. NIc's AAC DSF being hosted on a good server ? If not i will host it on mine also .... link appreciated .... Thanks

[Charlieds]

Nic's AAC DSF is on Roberto's RareWares site:
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00

[TheHeap]

mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net

ffmpeg.sourceforg.net

make it sticky in another thread and update it.

just for the overview!

gr33tz

[rjamorim]

Originally posted by ChristianHJW
MPEG4 ( format )


MPEG4ip binaries:

http://peque.metropoliglobal.com/dext/index.html

http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/

H.264:

-Binaries
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/

-Source code/information
http://bs.hhi.de/~suehring/
http://hdot264.sourceforge.net/

[demonmagnet]

typo in doom9 ogg muxing guide.Shile playback of 6ch ogg files is possible now

[crusty]

Hmm, no links for matroska?'

www.matroska.org

[hans-jürgen]

Originally posted by ChristianHJW
I updated it .. there was so much going on in the last weeks. Anything i forgot ? RareWares has moved to Hydrogen Audio now:

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/

The open source FAAC project (AAC encoder) including FAAD2 (AAC/MP4 decoder) is hosted on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/

which also uses the SourceForge download service for all available source code packages of the FAAC project.

The alias for its homepage is:

http://www.audiocoding.com/

with an own forum and a Wiki, a user-editable knowledge base which collects all available information about audio coding, e.g. available DS filters on the page for "Software Audio Players for Windows" that work for video content, too. The Wiki also contains important pages about the codecs FAAC, FAAD2 and PsyTEL or MP4 and AAC in general which are regularly updated:

http://www.audiocoding.com/wiki/index.php?page=FAAC


Available MP4 file muxers at the moment are:

* mp4tool and/or mp4edit (a simple GUI version) from the ENST, the people that are in charge of the official MPEG-4 Systems Conformance documents; they also offer Osmo4, the first freeware software player for MPEG-4 Systems content:

http://www.comelec.enst.fr/%7Edufourd/mpeg-4/tools.html

* XMTBatch and/or AVGen (also a simple version) from IBM, based on an installed Java Virtual Machine (v1.4 or newer gives best results); these two apps are part of the IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 which also incorporates M4Play, another freeware MPEG-4 Systems player (besides the EnvivioTV plugin for WMP, RealPlayer and older QuickTime versions):

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tk4mpeg4/

* mp4creator from the MPEG4IP project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpeg4ip/

* mp4UI, a Windows GUI based on mp4creator:

http://www.mediacruiser.de/mp4UI/

Almost all of these projects offer user support in their web forums (also with search functions), a comprehensive list can be found on the first page of the Audiocoding.com Wiki:

http://www.audiocoding.com/wiki/


The available documentation for these MP4 authoring tools is sometimes spread over several locations, either on the same web site or on different sites:

* Besides the mentioned ENST page for mp4tool there is a Quick Primer for BIFS (Binary Format for Scenes, one of the important parts of MPEG-4 Systems) and a short FAQ, too:

http://www.comelec.enst.fr/~dufourd/mpeg-4/Bifs_Primer/primer.html

* The official documentation on the MPEG4IP web site consists of a long text file dealing mostly with compiling issues (http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/documentation/index.php) and a shorter text written by Enrico Palmeri about creating content with DivX 5, VirtualDub, QT6 Pro and mp4creator:

http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/docs/

* Some useful documents can also be found on their CVS server, the best probably being encoding.htm:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mpeg4ip/mpeg4ip/doc/encoding/encoding.htm?rev=1.4&hideattic=0&content-type=text/plain

* Other interesting text files reside in the /doc/ directory, e.g. in /programs/ or in /mp4v2/ like mp4creator.1 (explaining the different options of the file muxer) or mp4encode.1 (a convenient script for Linux users that does it all).

* Because of this rather diffuse "docu situation" two fine guides are provided outside of the MPEG4IP project, one being the well-known MPEG4IP Guide from the Everwicked.com site (with a good forum, too) that can be accessed as an online tutorial or read from a downloadable PDF file:

http://www.everwicked.com/content/MPEG4IP_Guide/

* The other one is the article "Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux" in the online Linux Journal by Donald Szeto which explains the important parts of the complex MPEG4IP project in an understandable manner, so it's probably the best way to start when creating MP4 files:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6720&mode=thread&order=0

It also describes some other tools like FFmpeg (even describing a 2-pass encoding method with it), "transcode" and the Apple Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) of course. This just shows that in the case of MPEG-4 "many roads lead to Rome", because it's an open standard that does not force the usage of proprietary closed-source tools etc.

Last but not least I should mention the Doom9.org guide for MP4 of course, but probably most of the readers know it already:

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mp4.htm