Please keep supporting avi file format

[YEApineapple]

Hi

I'm loving handbrake ( easy to use, brilliant image quality, you've heard it all before I know). However I was dissapointed to read in the development road map that handbrake 9.4 was going to loose support for avi files. I understand that the avi file format isn't cutting edge but I have found that avi files are the most compatible file format around. Please, Please keep the avi file format. It may be old but it works flawlessly with every media player software I have.

Ps I know vlc player is good but other media players have their plus sides as well. please keep avi file format - it's the only format all my software can agree on.

thanks

jon

[s55]

It was removed a few months back. It's gone for good now. You can stick with 0.9.3 if you need AVI support however you'd probably be better of just finding an application that works better with AVI.

* AVI: AVI is a rough beast. It is obsolete. It does not support modern container features like chapters, muxed-in subtitles, variable framerate video, or out of order frame display. Furthermore, HandBrake's AVI muxer is vanilla AVI 1.0 that doesn't even support large files. The code has not been actively maintained since 2005. Keeping it in the library while implementing new features means a very convoluted data pipeline, full of conditionals that make the code more difficult to read/maintain, and make output harder to predict. As such, it is now gone. It is not coming back, and good riddance.

[YEApineapple]

Thanks for letting me know about avi.

Seeing as I should find a new file format that's more future proof I was wondering which file format will become the most compatible or most popular for mpeg4 files? Mp4 Mkv or M4v. I'm asking you as you will know more about this than most people. I would have thought Mp4 would be most popular, but I don't know enought about mpeg-4 to say for certain.

Thanks for your help

Jonny

[TedJ]

First off, m4v is mp4... it's just a different file suffix to allow softsubs, AC3 passthrough and embedded chapters to work with Apple devices. Structurally they're identical.

I would say in the short term that mp4 has the edge, especially in hardware support, but mkv is now part of the DivX Plus HD profile so I'd expect hardware support for it to take off in a similar fashion to current DivX certified devices.