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Old 20th May 2020, 20:46   #13  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by foxyshadis View Post
The primary difficulty is that there is no raw stream format, not even a de-facto one. All raw streams only exist on the fly, from container to container. There were a couple of ideas, and ffmpeg will demux something that it'll sometimes remux, but it never hit the critical mass where defining a raw bitstream was needed. All WMV exists within ASF, MKV, MPEG-PS, or MPEG-TS, and that's just all there is to say about that.
VC-1 Advanced Profile did support an elementary stream format, but Main and prior WMV versions did not.

*.vc1, IIRC? Although I rarely used it for much.
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