Matroska: Difference between revisions

From MultimediaWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (typo)
(start filling in MIME types for container formats)
Line 1: Line 1:
* Extensions: mkv, mka, mks
* Extensions: mkv, mka, mks
* Website: [http://matroska.org http://matroska.org]
* Website: http://matroska.org
* Specs: [http://www.matroska.org/technical/index.html http://www.matroska.org/technical/index.html]
* Specification: http://www.matroska.org/technical/index.html
* MIME Type:
** mkv: video/mkv


Free container format designed to supplant currently existing container formats like [[AVI]]. The shortcomings in the Matroska design sparked the development of [[NUT]].
Free container format designed to supplant currently existing container formats like [[AVI]]. The shortcomings in the Matroska design sparked the development of [[NUT]].

Revision as of 13:54, 30 October 2007

Free container format designed to supplant currently existing container formats like AVI. The shortcomings in the Matroska design sparked the development of NUT.

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_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: VC-1 [1] [2]
Proposed but not yet implemented