Matroska Forum

[MetalheadGautham]

Well I have noticed that several people have lots of queries regarding matroska. The containter is itself pretty deep. Hence I suggest you include a matroska forum, where issues related to muxing, joining, splitting, playing and ripping matroska multimedia can be discussed.





PS: due to there being no such forum, I had to endure This:mad: (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127258).... Please delete it:scared: and help me keep my dignity...

[foxyshadis]

We have a containers forum, that's more than enough to house the interest in MKV here. There aren't enough tools and aren't enough questions that can be asked about them to warrant a whole forum.

[Guest]

I had to endure This:mad: (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127258).... Please delete it:scared: and help me keep my dignity... Once somebody replies, it is not just your thread exclusively and we cannot just delete other people's posts.

Protection of your dignity is your responsibility. :)

[MetalheadGautham]

We have a containers forum, that's more than enough to house the interest in MKV here. There aren't enough tools and aren't enough questions that can be asked about them to warrant a whole forum.


actually, there are a lot of topics connected to matroska:

1. matroska muxing
2. creating and editing chapters and menus
3. file linking
4. direct creation of mkvs from VCDs, DVDs, SVCDs, etc
5. batch muxing of files to the mkv container
6. splitting and joining files
7. de-compilation of matroska files and muxing them to other containers


Infact, the amount of features this container offers is enough to fill your coffers. with enough coverage to these lesser known advantages of mkv, you can definitely make a forum for matroska.

[jggimi]

Subforum creation/deletion is based on traffic and general interest, rather than on individual request.

Your massive quantity of postings over the last few days notwithstanding, there is insufficient traffic to justify a separate subforum.

[MetalheadGautham]

well, this is not massive quantity of postings....

Check out the VLC forums and you will see my posts all over the place, but they are all useful.


Request:Can you create a poll asking people if they would like a Matroska forum???

[Henrikx]

@MetalheadGautham
Look here, ChristianHJW,someone of the Matroska team.
Statements for the development of Matroska and....
http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=8904&hl=doom9&st=45

[foxyshadis]

actually, there are a lot of topics connected to matroska:

1. matroska muxing
2. creating and editing chapters and menus
3. file linking
4. direct creation of mkvs from VCDs, DVDs, SVCDs, etc
5. batch muxing of files to the mkv container
6. splitting and joining files
7. de-compilation of matroska files and muxing them to other containers


Infact, the amount of features this container offers is enough to fill your coffers. with enough coverage to these lesser known advantages of mkv, you can definitely make a forum for matroska.

What part of that is outside the perview of the containers forum? What you point out is the stuff of merketing literature, FAQs, and documentation, and people can make threads on them. That's not the focus of the forum, which is DVD backup; if you look around you'll see everything else revolves around that, and containers are just a perephrial satellite. Yes, those are all great features, but mp4, wmv, and ts should also get their own forums, by your logic, because they also support muxing, chapters, menus, linking, splitting, joining, and demuxing. Interest (gauged by posts & threads) is almost even between the four main alternative containers, and interest in mov, avi, ogm, and rm nearly nonexistant.

(In fact, ts & mp4 are the only ones with a functional menu implementation, mkv and wmv menus still exist only on paper.)

Of them, only mp4 seems to be developing a software ecosystem in free & commercial software & hardware. Whether mkv becomes an ogm-like niche has a lot to do with whether Core makes good on its promises to have mkv in hardware.

Want your own mkv forum? Use this link (http://forum.doom9.org/search.php?do=process&query=mkv&forumchoice[%5d=74). Just don't overuse it, the server is stressed enough as it is.

[MetalheadGautham]

well, the problem is that ever since matroska got off sourceforge and got its own website, there is currently no offitial matroska forum. I came here thinking all my queries regarding it will be answered, because I handle a lot of different formats which I wish to combine in one container(mkv) which is supported fully by a good portable app(VLC). I intend to burn my stuff off to DVDs and preserve them, to load stuff off my tiny 80 GB HDD.

I also suddenly noticed that my DVD collection had gone big.

I didn't want to repeat my episode with my trusty Unreal Tournament Game, whose CD got spoilt, and I had to format the same partition in which it was there for linux:mad: I want to backup every multimedia file I have, without loosing quality or gaining size, since then. My sinceare :thanks: to this wonderful forum where I finally found lots of new ideas to help me.

[delacroixp]

@MetalheadGautham
Look here, ChristianHJW, someone of the Matroska team.
Statements for the development of Matroska and... Virtualdub Save As *.mp4? (http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=8904&hl=doom9&st=45)
Fascinating thread...


ChristianHJW Posted: Aug 15 2007, 07:29 AM (http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=8904&hl=doom9&st=45)

Currently most of the developers in the former matroska team found a job in Corecodec, and are working heavily on their famous Coreplayer. As this player is fully integrated and coming with all (most) necessary decoders for MKV playback, we will have MKV support on hardware units soon (Coreplayer is running fine on all integer CPUs, like ARM and of course µC Linux - plus it is fast enough to allow h.264 decoding on standalones).

For this reason the plans on an MKV editing tool came more or less to a halt, but of course there are still the sources of Dr.DivX available and they are opensource, and based on FFMPEG. Steve 'robux4' Lhomme, the founder of matroska, was making this tool himself when he was working for DivX Networks. Lets see, maybe once the player is working fine and they are earning money with it, we can expect them to work on an MKV editor again.

An integration of Dr DivX (http://forums.divx.com/forum/viewTopic.php?id=5003) and MKV would certainly be welcome.


BetaBoy Posted: Aug 17 2007, 08:10 PM
(http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=8904&hl=doom9&st=45)
More mainstream Matroska adoption will happen in 2008 with CorePlayer and our OEM derivatives being installed in tens of millions of software/hardware devices. DVD/DVR players are also starting to see the benefits and we already know if 2 major hollywood production houses and 2 russian film studios using Matroska for production and dailyies. Additionally with the plans for the Matroska Menu system to be ready by the time CES rolls around in January, I suspect we will have additional third party software soon enough for editing.

Be interesting to see if MKV has made substantial success in their quest to make chapters and menus achievable within MKV... I just hate multiple files for series and suchlike.



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