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UFicle Help: What is an .mkv file | by darthludi | 2008-10-01 08:18:07 |
| MKV's vs AVI's |
by kanth |
2008-10-01 12:01:48 |
To answer your Q, you need : MKVExtractGUI, VirtualDub, and MKVtoolnix.
AVI and MKV are containers. There are advantages and disadvantages to both of them.
AVI mostly has the advantages of being simple and compatible. It was first to market and around a long time. A lot of people use avi files, and there is nothing wrong with that. But the spec they were built on was made in 1992 and last updated in 1996. You can almost guarantee someone will get audio and video playback from an avi file as long as they have the right codec. You can down right guarantee every player will play them back.
The disadvantages of them are that only certain players support some features that might be nice. It is up to player support of the avi files to allow multiple streams of audio or the use of subtitles. Almost no players support subtitles in playback of avi files. While multiple streams are supported for audio and such, it is also hard to find players that support multiple streams. In addition to that, the newest codec's only work inside of the container as a hack. (But a lot of the time they DO work).
Matroska (MKV) on the other hand supports multiple versions of almost every available audio/video/sub stream in use. It has a low overhead and produces tighter, smaller files than AVI does. It supports chapters, it has error recovery inside of it, and can support changes in scaling and frame rates. Almost every player of this type can both deal with subtitles (multiple sets of them) but also change from one audio stream to another at a moments notice.
So these are nice for one video and one audio, and also nice for a video with subtitles in English and French, and languages in English and French. These don't play back on anything, you need a supported player. But they players are easy to find.
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