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mbcd
11th July 2011, 12:48
I`m glad to see MKV getting a such famous container at all, and I love to see that it gets those popular.

But there is one thing I don`t like ...:devil:

3D-Videos that I want to put in MKV :eek:


I dont find an acceptible way to do this. There are two options you have:
1. Create two MKV-Files (right.mkv and left.mkv)
2. Create an SBS-Video


Point 1 is not optimal, because you need 2 FIles for one Video. The nice Part with MKV is (and that is one big point im using it): You can put all your stuff in one File and not as Bluray-like with 1000 files and folders.

Point 2 is not optimal, because you mostly have to reencode the whole video to make it SBS.


My question is:
Why is it not possible to put both streams (left and right video) in one MKV-File (so you have two videotracks) an set an special value which marks it as 3D. That would be "like" M2TS handles it.


I personaly dont like the actual way with MKV in that point. 3D gets more and more greater in acceptance, it would be fine to get a nicer workaround with MKV. In the moment I dont touch my 3D-Bluray to backup them with MKV.

Is there something planed to get a better handlich with MKV (MK3D) ?

sneaker_ger
11th July 2011, 15:09
Combining two tracks (http://matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html#TrackOperation) is planned (or rather already specified I think), but there is no software to create them yet.