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author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2012-11-05 19:24:57 +0400 |
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committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2012-11-05 19:36:44 +0400 |
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diff --git a/doc/ffserver.texi b/doc/ffserver.texi index 074c075f0b..4f46f5d116 100644 --- a/doc/ffserver.texi +++ b/doc/ffserver.texi @@ -238,6 +238,19 @@ You use this by adding the ?date= to the end of the URL for the stream. For example: @samp{http://localhost:8080/test.asf?date=2002-07-26T23:05:00}. @c man end +@section What is FFM, FFM2 + +FFM and FFM2 are formats used by ffserver, they allow storing a wide varity of +video and audio streams, encoding options and can store a moving time segment +of a infinite movie or a whole movie. + +FFM, is version specific, there is limited compatibility of FFM files +generated by one version of ffmpeg/ffserver and another version of +ffmpeg/ffserver. It may work but its not guranteed to work. + +FFM2 is extensible while maintaining compatibility and should work between +differing versions of tools. FFM2 is the default. + @chapter Options @c man begin OPTIONS |