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Simon88
9th February 2012, 03:26
According to the Matroska Specs:
http://matroska.org/technical/order/index.htm
So the Cues should always be written after the Clusters. However the Cues could also appear at the front.

However, WebM Specs:
http://www.webmproject.org/code/specs/container/
It is recommended that the Cues element be before any clusters, so that the client can seek to a point in the data that has not yet been downloaded in a single seek operation.

I'm curious if I should run a "mkclean --optimize" operation on all my newly created MKVs? Currently, all of my files are: "Optimum layout from a muxer".

I hoping to archive many of them offline and prefer to standardize it onto the best format possible. I get the impression, if I need future "streaming" capabilities, then files need to processed by "mkclean". If so, does the Matroska "muxer" have a built-in "Optimize" for streaming capability?

Thanks..