» RAUM Media Container / libraum

Overview:

	RAUM-CF0	RAUM-CF1 (Draft)	RAUM-CF2 (Draft)	Ogg	RIFF WAVE	Matroska	AVI
License	GPL/LGPL	GPL/LGPL	GPL/LGPL	RFC/Public Domain	?	LGPL	?
Player Support	RAUM tools	None	None	Many	Many	?	Many
Hardware Support	None	None	None	Many	?	?	?
OS Support	Multi Platform	None	None	Multi Platform	Many	?	Many

	RAUM-CF0	RAUM-CF1 (Draft)	RAUM-CF2 (Draft)	Ogg	RIFF WAVE	Matroska	AVI
Optimized CPU register width	32 Bit, 64 Bit	8 Bit	32 Bit	32 Bit?	32 Bit Intel	?	32 Bit? Intel
Codec IDs	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES	?
Container Meta Data	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES?	?
Multi Stream Support	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	1x Audio, 1x Video?
Streams can start and stop at any moment	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	?	NO
Streaming	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	NO
Garbage detection	trailing	trailing	trailing	NO	NO	?	?
Seektables/Cuesheets	in draft, streaming	in draft, streaming	in draft, streaming	NO	NO	?	?
DTX	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	?	NO
Minimal overhead	8 Byte Magic, 10 Byte per req	8 Byte Magic, 4 Byte per req	8 Byte Magic, 16 Byte per req	27..282 Byte per page	44 Byte	0.5%...6%	?
Maximum File size	Infinit	Infinit	Infinit	nearly Infinit	2GB	nearly Infinit	2GB/1GB
Error detection	NO	8 Bit CRC per req	32 Bit CRC per req	32 Bit CRC per page	NO	YES	?

	RAUM-CF0	RAUM-CF1 (Draft)	RAUM-CF2 (Draft)	Ogg	RIFF WAVE	Matroska	AVI
Uncompressed Audio	PCM	PCM	PCM	PCM	PCM	PCM	?
Lossless compressed Audio	FLAC	FLAC	FLAC	FLAC	NO?	YES	?
Losy compressed Audio	YES	YES	YES	YES	A-Law, μ-Law,...	YES	YES
MIDI	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	?	NO
Video	?	?	?	YES	NO	YES	YES
Text	?	?	?	YES	NO	YES	?
Light Control	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	?	NO
Laser	?	?	?	NO	NO	?	NO
Raw Data	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	?	NO