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kurkosdr
19th January 2010, 14:57
MKV files can have multiple video streams, multiple audio streams, subtitles and chapters.
This means I can take the titles of a DVD and make them into MKV files while preserving all the nice multiple angles (if any), multiple audio streams, subtitles and chapters.

But what if I want to preserve the menu structure too? Does MKV have any support for menus?
If yes, how can I do that?

Lam3rD
19th January 2010, 15:07
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=140723

kurkosdr
20th January 2010, 11:52
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=140723
From what I understood by reading through the barely-readable text, menu support in MKVs is "just around the corner" (like most things in Linuxland :rolleyes:)

How is that an improvement over MP4?

Open source formats suck. All of them.

Elbart_
20th January 2010, 13:12
Then why were you asking if you are prefering MP4 anyway?

kurkosdr
22nd January 2010, 20:34
Then why were you asking if you are prefering MP4 anyway?
Because the whole standalone support is headed towards MKV. Unfortunately.

Blue_MiSfit
22nd January 2010, 21:54
From what I understood by reading through the barely-readable text, menu support in MKVs is "just around the corner" (like most things in Linuxland :rolleyes:)

How is that an improvement over MP4?

Open source formats suck. All of them.

LOL!!! Open source formats suck??

Oh boy...

Why do you need menus anyway? :p

creamyhorror
23rd January 2010, 06:59
Because the whole standalone support is headed towards MKV. Unfortunately.
Because MP4 is better than MKV, right :rolleyes:

CruNcher
23rd January 2010, 07:23
Nope because more illegal content becomes available in that format geez and people are greedy and want to make money :D
someday also you gonna understand the crazy human beings and their game called economy ;)