I want to order a matroska file. With the works please.

[Trip Machine]

Okay, so I'm going to give it my first try in creating a full-fledged mkv file. I'm well versed in making ogm files with VDubMod so making mkv files should be the same. I've read that matroska can use SSA subs, so I guess I'll switch from SRT then.

But I'm still confused at the development and how far it has gotten. I've read the info at the official site (matroska.org), however some of the technical things went way over my head. So I ask the following questions:

1) It is possible yet to create those DVD-like menus we were promised?

2) Variable framerates. I know it has something to do with VfW, API's and how things need to be reworked due to the operating system's limitations. These are all things beyond my comprehension and I'm guessing that this is a tough problem to solve. What's the progress report here?

3) A wise man named Christian once said that is possible to, for example, use the same intro and outro for a television series and have it linked to each episode such that you only need 1 copy of the outro and intro instead of having it in each video clip. The files would get played seamlessly and you could save space for higher bitrate or other files. I don't know the correct terminology for this but if there is one, please I'd like to know.

4) I know that development is always ongoing so just a final question. When shall we be expected to be able to make a mkv file with the works? That is, to be able to make a mkv file with all the nifty extras and benefits of the container as intended by the developers.

Thanks again for your wonderful work.

[hofmetzger]

well i could write a few things about that (for example, the full flavor of mkv (of the things u can do now!) you only have with mkvmerge. vdm doesn't eats my ssa's atm and i don't trust vdm concerning muxing tu mkv...)

but i think its time for the devs to give us some hints how 2 create mkvs the smart way... please

(for me it always has been: encode video with vdm, audio with headac3he, ssa with subrip, muxing with graphedit, setting language-tags with mkvmerge with included runningoutofmemory... but it was worth it:) )

[KpeX]

All of these questions could have been answered with some reading....

1. _No_. Menus are not implemented yet. This has been covered many times.

2. Not yet implemented, to my knowledge.

3. Latest versions of mkvmerge can perform file linking. Download mkvmerge and read the documentation, should be no problem.

4. The matroska team is quite talented, but I doubt they can see into the future. Relax, matroska has only been out publicly for a few months now. Developments will come. The progress made so far has been beyond excellent IMO.

[RadicalEd]

Originally posted by KpeX
2. Not yet implemented, to my knowledge.

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I dunno about you, but I can mux and parse a vfr RealVideo file perfectly fine here. Vdubmod can't handle vfr because of how geigh vfw is, but the directshow muxxer and mkvmerge should work.

[robUx4]

You can have a look at this page (http://cvs.corecodec.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/matroska/doc/website/features.html) for a list of features we plan to add. There is no roadmap or priorities set. We just take things as we want to implement them :)

[jcsston]

2. If you feel daring I just made a Matroska file writer that can take a couple different frame-rated (everything else must be the same) avi's and append them into one Matroska file.
This hasn't been tested a lot as I don't have any Hybrid video sources right now ;)
I would recommend appending video-only avi's and then remuxing the resulting Matroska file with the DShow muxer to add audio.
Download (http://matroska.free.fr/downloads/matroska_writer_vfr.zip)

[Yusaku]

Wow, neat... now I just have to wait for some bitmap subtitle support and I'll finally correctly finish my rip of Otaku no Video (people somehow complained about ~70 ASX linked VobSub subtitled files and subs ^_^)