[lug] Open Source Video Encoding Formats...Multiple Video Layers?

Tue Mar 31 16:03:50 MDT 2020

The gold standard for open source video is WebM but I do not think it
supports your use case. In fact I do not know of any standard that
does, you might scavenger at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_file_format
Probably some proprietary format from proprietary video editing might
support that, but I think whoever would need that would do chroma
keying (I know, not full fledged as you asked, but who really needs
more than that other than the animation movie studios?)

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 3:54 PM D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been tinkering a bit and thinking about video formats. I was looking to see if there were any formats which support recording video in layers which can later be edited on each layer, layers enabled/disabled, so on. Unfortunately I never found anything, and especially nothing for open source/free formats. Has anyone here ever heard of an open source video encoding format or file format supporting video in layers?
>
> Thanks!
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