Matroska Support
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Matroska Support
What is the status of Matroska support for HandBrake? I know some people have talked about implmenting it, but is anything happening/anyone actively working on it. If not, I'd be interested in taking a stab at it. I assume it would amount to implementing a muxmkv.c file, modeled after muxmp4 and muxogm?
Re: Matroska Support
Out of curiosity, what is the draw of mkv? Isn't is just Yet Another Container format?resistor wrote:What is the status of Matroska support for HandBrake? I know some people have talked about implmenting it, but is anything happening/anyone actively working on it. If not, I'd be interested in taking a stab at it. I assume it would amount to implementing a muxmkv.c file, modeled after muxmp4 and muxogm?
http://www.matroska.org/
Now, as to what the appeal is, that'll depend on what your goals or priorities are (or aren't.)
Now, as to what the appeal is, that'll depend on what your goals or priorities are (or aren't.)
Re: Matroska Support
Unlike mp4 or avi, it's fully open source.golias wrote:Out of curiosity, what is the draw of mkv? Isn't is just Yet Another Container format?
Unlike mp4, it stores AC3 audio.
Unlike avi, it properly stores h.264 video with b-frames.
It supports chapters, menus, unlimited numbers of tracks, all sorts of things. It can handle lossless FLAC audio. It can handle pretty much anything.
It just happens to be a lot more complicated than something like .avi, and less supported than .mp4.
Re: Matroska Support
That's the real problem - no portable devices support it. Although Perian is dragging MKV support kicking and screaming into QuickTime...jbrjake wrote:It just happens to be a lot more complicated than something like .avi, and less supported than .mp4.
Anyone who wants to work on this gets a big thumbs up from me!
You can download a GUI for Mkvmerge here : http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoo ... lnix-2.zip
I'm doing a website about Mkv files on mac : how to create, how to read, how to modify...
The website is in french (under-construction)
I'm looking for an english translation. I'm french and my english is not fluent.
If there is someone interested...
I'm doing a website about Mkv files on mac : how to create, how to read, how to modify...
The website is in french (under-construction)
I'm looking for an english translation. I'm french and my english is not fluent.
If there is someone interested...
Last edited by crashray on Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
...or you could just go to the official matroska site and download a copy that isn't absurdly out of date.crashray wrote:You can download a GUI for Mkvmerge here : http://rapidshare.com/files/28396684/MK ... g.zip.html
EDIT: looks like they redesigned the downloads section again, so mkvtoolnix isn't as easy to get to. Use this link: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoo ... tml#macosx
Re: Matroska Support
Yeah, those Perian guys rock! Just tried out their 1.0b2 with MKV support and it's really good (pretty subtitles, chapter support, etc.).hawkman wrote:That's the real problem - no portable devices support it. Although Perian is dragging MKV support kicking and screaming into QuickTime...jbrjake wrote:It just happens to be a lot more complicated than something like .avi, and less supported than .mp4.
It even supports exporting/transcoding from mkv to another format from QT (subtitles included!).
mk2000
Perian is able to read a MKV files ? http://perian.org/
You have a Matroska QT component here but it is very slow. Chapter support, different language support.
Edit : works great ! How could we choose subtitles ?
A link to download it.
You have a Matroska QT component here but it is very slow. Chapter support, different language support.
Edit : works great ! How could we choose subtitles ?
A link to download it.
On the anime fansub files I've tried it on the subtitles come on automatically (if there are subtitles to begin with).crashray wrote:Perian is able to read a MKV files ? http://perian.org/
You have a Matroska QT component here but it is very slow. Chapter support, different language support.
Edit : works great ! How could we choose subtitles ?
A link to download it.
My problem has been turning them off.
Actually, if you have Quicktime Pro and you look at the advance movie properties while the file is open, you will be able to look at the different streams available. You should be able to select/deselect the subtitle stream.
mk2000