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  15. <h1>
  16. NUT
  17. </h1>
  18. <div class="top-level-extent" id="SEC_Top">
  19. <div class="element-contents" id="SEC_Contents">
  20. <h2 class="contents-heading">Table of Contents</h2>
  21. <div class="contents">
  22. <ul class="toc-numbered-mark">
  23. <li><a id="toc-Description" href="#Description">1 Description</a></li>
  24. <li><a id="toc-Modes" href="#Modes">2 Modes</a>
  25. <ul class="toc-numbered-mark">
  26. <li><a id="toc-BROADCAST" href="#BROADCAST">2.1 BROADCAST</a></li>
  27. <li><a id="toc-PIPE" href="#PIPE">2.2 PIPE</a></li>
  28. </ul></li>
  29. <li><a id="toc-Container_002dspecific-codec-tags" href="#Container_002dspecific-codec-tags">3 Container-specific codec tags</a>
  30. <ul class="toc-numbered-mark">
  31. <li><a id="toc-Generic-raw-YUVA-formats" href="#Generic-raw-YUVA-formats">3.1 Generic raw YUVA formats</a></li>
  32. <li><a id="toc-Raw-Audio" href="#Raw-Audio">3.2 Raw Audio</a></li>
  33. <li><a id="toc-Subtitles" href="#Subtitles">3.3 Subtitles</a></li>
  34. <li><a id="toc-Raw-Data" href="#Raw-Data">3.4 Raw Data</a></li>
  35. <li><a id="toc-Codecs" href="#Codecs">3.5 Codecs</a></li>
  36. </ul></li>
  37. </ul>
  38. </div>
  39. </div>
  40. <ul class="mini-toc">
  41. <li><a href="#Description" accesskey="1">Description</a></li>
  42. <li><a href="#Modes" accesskey="2">Modes</a></li>
  43. <li><a href="#Container_002dspecific-codec-tags" accesskey="3">Container-specific codec tags</a></li>
  44. </ul>
  45. <div class="chapter-level-extent" id="Description">
  46. <h2 class="chapter"><span>1 Description<a class="copiable-link" href="#Description"> &para;</a></span></h2>
  47. <p>NUT is a low overhead generic container format. It stores audio, video,
  48. subtitle and user-defined streams in a simple, yet efficient, way.
  49. </p>
  50. <p>It was created by a group of FFmpeg and MPlayer developers in 2003
  51. and was finalized in 2008.
  52. </p>
  53. <p>The official nut specification is at svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut
  54. In case of any differences between this text and the official specification,
  55. the official specification shall prevail.
  56. </p>
  57. </div>
  58. <div class="chapter-level-extent" id="Modes">
  59. <h2 class="chapter"><span>2 Modes<a class="copiable-link" href="#Modes"> &para;</a></span></h2>
  60. <p>NUT has some variants signaled by using the flags field in its main header.
  61. </p>
  62. <table class="multitable">
  63. <tbody><tr><td width="40%">BROADCAST</td><td width="40%">Extend the syncpoint to report the sender wallclock</td></tr>
  64. <tr><td width="40%">PIPE</td><td width="40%">Omit completely the syncpoint</td></tr>
  65. </tbody>
  66. </table>
  67. <ul class="mini-toc">
  68. <li><a href="#BROADCAST" accesskey="1">BROADCAST</a></li>
  69. <li><a href="#PIPE" accesskey="2">PIPE</a></li>
  70. </ul>
  71. <div class="section-level-extent" id="BROADCAST">
  72. <h3 class="section"><span>2.1 BROADCAST<a class="copiable-link" href="#BROADCAST"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  73. <p>The BROADCAST variant provides a secondary time reference to facilitate
  74. detecting endpoint latency and network delays.
  75. It assumes all the endpoint clocks are synchronized.
  76. To be used in real-time scenarios.
  77. </p>
  78. </div>
  79. <div class="section-level-extent" id="PIPE">
  80. <h3 class="section"><span>2.2 PIPE<a class="copiable-link" href="#PIPE"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  81. <p>The PIPE variant assumes NUT is used as non-seekable intermediate container,
  82. by not using syncpoint removes unneeded overhead and reduces the overall
  83. memory usage.
  84. </p>
  85. </div>
  86. </div>
  87. <div class="chapter-level-extent" id="Container_002dspecific-codec-tags">
  88. <h2 class="chapter"><span>3 Container-specific codec tags<a class="copiable-link" href="#Container_002dspecific-codec-tags"> &para;</a></span></h2>
  89. <ul class="mini-toc">
  90. <li><a href="#Generic-raw-YUVA-formats" accesskey="1">Generic raw YUVA formats</a></li>
  91. <li><a href="#Raw-Audio" accesskey="2">Raw Audio</a></li>
  92. <li><a href="#Subtitles" accesskey="3">Subtitles</a></li>
  93. <li><a href="#Raw-Data" accesskey="4">Raw Data</a></li>
  94. <li><a href="#Codecs" accesskey="5">Codecs</a></li>
  95. </ul>
  96. <div class="section-level-extent" id="Generic-raw-YUVA-formats">
  97. <h3 class="section"><span>3.1 Generic raw YUVA formats<a class="copiable-link" href="#Generic-raw-YUVA-formats"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  98. <p>Since many exotic planar YUVA pixel formats are not considered by
  99. the AVI/QuickTime FourCC lists, the following scheme is adopted for
  100. representing them.
  101. </p>
  102. <p>The first two bytes can contain the values:
  103. Y1 = only Y
  104. Y2 = Y+A
  105. Y3 = YUV
  106. Y4 = YUVA
  107. </p>
  108. <p>The third byte represents the width and height chroma subsampling
  109. values for the UV planes, that is the amount to shift the luma
  110. width/height right to find the chroma width/height.
  111. </p>
  112. <p>The fourth byte is the number of bits used (8, 16, ...).
  113. </p>
  114. <p>If the order of bytes is inverted, that means that each component has
  115. to be read big-endian.
  116. </p>
  117. </div>
  118. <div class="section-level-extent" id="Raw-Audio">
  119. <h3 class="section"><span>3.2 Raw Audio<a class="copiable-link" href="#Raw-Audio"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  120. <table class="multitable">
  121. <tbody><tr><td width="40%">ALAW</td><td width="40%">A-LAW</td></tr>
  122. <tr><td width="40%">ULAW</td><td width="40%">MU-LAW</td></tr>
  123. <tr><td width="40%">P&lt;type&gt;&lt;interleaving&gt;&lt;bits&gt;</td><td width="40%">little-endian PCM</td></tr>
  124. <tr><td width="40%">&lt;bits&gt;&lt;interleaving&gt;&lt;type&gt;P</td><td width="40%">big-endian PCM</td></tr>
  125. </tbody>
  126. </table>
  127. <p>&lt;type&gt; is S for signed integer, U for unsigned integer, F for IEEE float
  128. &lt;interleaving&gt; is D for default, P is for planar.
  129. &lt;bits&gt; is 8/16/24/32
  130. </p>
  131. <div class="example">
  132. <pre class="example-preformatted">PFD[32] would for example be signed 32 bit little-endian IEEE float
  133. </pre></div>
  134. </div>
  135. <div class="section-level-extent" id="Subtitles">
  136. <h3 class="section"><span>3.3 Subtitles<a class="copiable-link" href="#Subtitles"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  137. <table class="multitable">
  138. <tbody><tr><td width="40%">UTF8</td><td width="40%">Raw UTF-8</td></tr>
  139. <tr><td width="40%">SSA[0]</td><td width="40%">SubStation Alpha</td></tr>
  140. <tr><td width="40%">DVDS</td><td width="40%">DVD subtitles</td></tr>
  141. <tr><td width="40%">DVBS</td><td width="40%">DVB subtitles</td></tr>
  142. </tbody>
  143. </table>
  144. </div>
  145. <div class="section-level-extent" id="Raw-Data">
  146. <h3 class="section"><span>3.4 Raw Data<a class="copiable-link" href="#Raw-Data"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  147. <table class="multitable">
  148. <tbody><tr><td width="40%">UTF8</td><td width="40%">Raw UTF-8</td></tr>
  149. </tbody>
  150. </table>
  151. </div>
  152. <div class="section-level-extent" id="Codecs">
  153. <h3 class="section"><span>3.5 Codecs<a class="copiable-link" href="#Codecs"> &para;</a></span></h3>
  154. <table class="multitable">
  155. <tbody><tr><td width="40%">3IV1</td><td width="40%">non-compliant MPEG-4 generated by old 3ivx</td></tr>
  156. <tr><td width="40%">ASV1</td><td width="40%">Asus Video</td></tr>
  157. <tr><td width="40%">ASV2</td><td width="40%">Asus Video 2</td></tr>
  158. <tr><td width="40%">CVID</td><td width="40%">Cinepak</td></tr>
  159. <tr><td width="40%">CYUV</td><td width="40%">Creative YUV</td></tr>
  160. <tr><td width="40%">DIVX</td><td width="40%">non-compliant MPEG-4 generated by old DivX</td></tr>
  161. <tr><td width="40%">DUCK</td><td width="40%">Truemotion 1</td></tr>
  162. <tr><td width="40%">FFV1</td><td width="40%">FFmpeg video 1</td></tr>
  163. <tr><td width="40%">FFVH</td><td width="40%">FFmpeg Huffyuv</td></tr>
  164. <tr><td width="40%">H261</td><td width="40%">ITU H.261</td></tr>
  165. <tr><td width="40%">H262</td><td width="40%">ITU H.262</td></tr>
  166. <tr><td width="40%">H263</td><td width="40%">ITU H.263</td></tr>
  167. <tr><td width="40%">H264</td><td width="40%">ITU H.264</td></tr>
  168. <tr><td width="40%">HFYU</td><td width="40%">Huffyuv</td></tr>
  169. <tr><td width="40%">I263</td><td width="40%">Intel H.263</td></tr>
  170. <tr><td width="40%">IV31</td><td width="40%">Indeo 3.1</td></tr>
  171. <tr><td width="40%">IV32</td><td width="40%">Indeo 3.2</td></tr>
  172. <tr><td width="40%">IV50</td><td width="40%">Indeo 5.0</td></tr>
  173. <tr><td width="40%">LJPG</td><td width="40%">ITU JPEG (lossless)</td></tr>
  174. <tr><td width="40%">MJLS</td><td width="40%">ITU JPEG-LS</td></tr>
  175. <tr><td width="40%">MJPG</td><td width="40%">ITU JPEG</td></tr>
  176. <tr><td width="40%">MPG4</td><td width="40%">MS MPEG-4v1 (not ISO MPEG-4)</td></tr>
  177. <tr><td width="40%">MP42</td><td width="40%">MS MPEG-4v2</td></tr>
  178. <tr><td width="40%">MP43</td><td width="40%">MS MPEG-4v3</td></tr>
  179. <tr><td width="40%">MP4V</td><td width="40%">ISO MPEG-4 Part 2 Video (from old encoders)</td></tr>
  180. <tr><td width="40%">mpg1</td><td width="40%">ISO MPEG-1 Video</td></tr>
  181. <tr><td width="40%">mpg2</td><td width="40%">ISO MPEG-2 Video</td></tr>
  182. <tr><td width="40%">MRLE</td><td width="40%">MS RLE</td></tr>
  183. <tr><td width="40%">MSVC</td><td width="40%">MS Video 1</td></tr>
  184. <tr><td width="40%">RT21</td><td width="40%">Indeo 2.1</td></tr>
  185. <tr><td width="40%">RV10</td><td width="40%">RealVideo 1.0</td></tr>
  186. <tr><td width="40%">RV20</td><td width="40%">RealVideo 2.0</td></tr>
  187. <tr><td width="40%">RV30</td><td width="40%">RealVideo 3.0</td></tr>
  188. <tr><td width="40%">RV40</td><td width="40%">RealVideo 4.0</td></tr>
  189. <tr><td width="40%">SNOW</td><td width="40%">FFmpeg Snow</td></tr>
  190. <tr><td width="40%">SVQ1</td><td width="40%">Sorenson Video 1</td></tr>
  191. <tr><td width="40%">SVQ3</td><td width="40%">Sorenson Video 3</td></tr>
  192. <tr><td width="40%">theo</td><td width="40%">Xiph Theora</td></tr>
  193. <tr><td width="40%">TM20</td><td width="40%">Truemotion 2.0</td></tr>
  194. <tr><td width="40%">UMP4</td><td width="40%">non-compliant MPEG-4 generated by UB Video MPEG-4</td></tr>
  195. <tr><td width="40%">VCR1</td><td width="40%">ATI VCR1</td></tr>
  196. <tr><td width="40%">VP30</td><td width="40%">VP 3.0</td></tr>
  197. <tr><td width="40%">VP31</td><td width="40%">VP 3.1</td></tr>
  198. <tr><td width="40%">VP50</td><td width="40%">VP 5.0</td></tr>
  199. <tr><td width="40%">VP60</td><td width="40%">VP 6.0</td></tr>
  200. <tr><td width="40%">VP61</td><td width="40%">VP 6.1</td></tr>
  201. <tr><td width="40%">VP62</td><td width="40%">VP 6.2</td></tr>
  202. <tr><td width="40%">VP70</td><td width="40%">VP 7.0</td></tr>
  203. <tr><td width="40%">WMV1</td><td width="40%">MS WMV7</td></tr>
  204. <tr><td width="40%">WMV2</td><td width="40%">MS WMV8</td></tr>
  205. <tr><td width="40%">WMV3</td><td width="40%">MS WMV9</td></tr>
  206. <tr><td width="40%">WV1F</td><td width="40%">non-compliant MPEG-4 generated by ?</td></tr>
  207. <tr><td width="40%">WVC1</td><td width="40%">VC-1</td></tr>
  208. <tr><td width="40%">XVID</td><td width="40%">non-compliant MPEG-4 generated by old Xvid</td></tr>
  209. <tr><td width="40%">XVIX</td><td width="40%">non-compliant MPEG-4 generated by old Xvid with interlacing bug</td></tr>
  210. </tbody>
  211. </table>
  212. </div>
  213. </div>
  214. </div>
  215. <p style="font-size: small;">
  216. This document was generated using <a class="uref" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"><em class="emph">makeinfo</em></a>.
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