Matroska
From MultimediaWiki
- Extensions: mkv, mka, mks
- Website: http://matroska.org
- Specification: http://www.matroska.org/technical/index.html
- MIME Type:
- mkv: video/mkv
Matroska is a free, general-purpose container format designed to supplant currently existing container formats like AVI. The shortcomings in the Matroska design sparked the development of NUT.
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Codec IDs
An incomplete list of Matroska codec IDs can be found here: http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/codecid/index.html
Haali media splitter has another list here: http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/codecs.pdf
The following Codec IDs are known to be in use:
- V_DIRAC: Dirac [1]
- V_MS/VFW/FOURCC: VfW compatibility mode
- V_MPEG1: MPEG-1
- V_MPEG2: MPEG-2
- V_MPEG4/ISO/SP: MPEG-4 part 2 Simple Profile (divx4)
- V_MPEG4/ISO/ASP: MPEG-4 part 2 Advanced Simple Profile
- V_MPEG4/ISO/AP: MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Profile (H.264)
- V_MPEG4/MS/V3: Divx3
- V_REAL/RV10: RealVideo 1
- V_REAL/RV20: RealVideo G2
- V_REAL/RV30: RealVideo 3
- V_REAL/RV40: RealVideo 4
- V_SNOW: FFmpeg Snow
- V_THEORA: Xiph Theora
- V_QUICKTIME: Quicktime compatiblity mode (mainly for SVQ3)
- V_UNCOMPRESSED: Uncompressed, format defined by KaxCodecColourSpace
- V_VC1: Deprecated; Use V_MS/VFW/FOURCC with WMV3 or WVC1 instead [2]
- V_VP8: VP8 [3]
- A_AAC: Advanced Audio Coding
- A_AAC/MPEGx/y: Obsolete; Use A_AAC instead
- A_AC3: ATSC A/52a
- A_EAC3: ATSC A/52b [4]
- A_DTS: DTS Coherent Acoustics
- A_FLAC: FLAC
- A_MPC: Musepack SV8
- A_MPEG/L1: MP1
- A_MPEG/L2: MP2
- A_MPEG/L3: MP3
- A_PCM/INT/BIG: Uncompressed PCM, Big-Endian
- A_PCM/INT/LIT: Uncompressed PCM, Little-Endian
- A_PCM/FLOAT/IEEE: Uncompressed PCM, IEEE floating-point
- A_REAL/14_4: VSELP
- A_REAL/28_8: RealAudio 28.8
- A_REAL/ATRC: ATRAC3, using Real extradata and xor format (RealAudio atrc)
- A_REAL/COOK: RealAudio cook
- A_REAL/SIPR: RealAudio sipr
- A_TTA1: True Audio lossless
- A_VORBIS: Vorbis
- A_WAVPACK4: WavPack
- A_QUICKTIME: Quicktime compatibility (uncommon)
- A_MS/ACM: Windows ACM compatibility (uncommon)
- Proposed but not yet implemented
