NUT is a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available multimedia container formats such as AVI or Matroska. It aims to be simple, extensible, compact and error resistant, thus addressing most if not all of the shortcomings present in alternative formats, like excessive CPU and size overhead, file size limit, inability to allow fine grained seeking or restrictions on the type of data they can contain.

External links

• Official NUT homepage
• NUT specification (draft 20050909)
• More in the MultimediaWiki
• MPlayer homepage
• FFmpeg homepage

Container formats | Computer file formats | Free multimedia codecs, containers, and splitters

NUT Container | NUT İçereni