Matroska open source A/V container format officially released

[zambelli]

My congratulation too. As far as I've seen, MKV is really dominating the HD video world.
Dominating? :)
I must've missed it in the HD-DVD, BluRay, ATSC, DVB-C, ISDB-T DVB-T, DVB-S, and every other high def video standard known to man. :rolleyes:

[vlada]

zambelli
I meant as a format for file sharing. This is where the most popular formats come from (MP3, AVI, MPEG-4 etc.)

[multicone]

Dominating? :)
I must've missed it in the HD-DVD, BluRay, ATSC, DVB-C, ISDB-T DVB-T, DVB-S, and every other high def video standard known to man. :rolleyes:

Of course, only M$ has enough money to set and push international standards today. I really dont wonna know homw many 'money presents' they have to give, and worldwide, to buy everybody.

How can a poor, non-profit opensource project compete against that ?

Still, you will find more MKV than WMV files in the net :p

[Shinigami-Sama]

Grats Matroska Team

Personally I see its use as more of a home user one. As companies are paranoid of implementing new technologies over old dieing ones. But thats not saying you wont make it big one day

[zambelli]

I meant as a format for file sharing. This is where the most popular formats come from (MP3, AVI, MPEG-4 etc.)
That's simply not true.
Just a simple search on Mininova yields these results:
"MKV": 1091 hits
"WMV": 1183 hits
"AVI": 2000 hits (and I have a feeling that's the max the search engine will report)

I'm sure a more elaborate and accurate search would show that AVI files vastly outnumber MKV files on general file-sharing sites.

If MKV dominates anywhere, I'd say that's an exception more than a rule.

Of course, only M$ has enough money to set and push international standards today. I really dont wonna know homw many 'money presents' they have to give, and worldwide, to buy everybody.
Only MS? Then who standardized all the other formats?

How can a poor, non-profit opensource project compete against that ?
Is it trying to compete against that? Are any Matroska team members MPEG, SMPTE or ISO members? Formats don't just automagically get standardized. Somebody has to actually initiate the process.

Still, you will find more MKV than WMV files in the net :p
You do realize that every website offering Windows Media streaming is using WMV, right? And you do realize there are quite a few of those around, right? What next, are you gonna tell us there is more MKV content than FLV/SWF content online?


To be clear, I'm not trying to discredit MKV. I'm just saying it's not nearly as common as some people claim it to be.

[celtic_druid]

All 720p scene releases I have seen recently have been in a mkv container due to the use of AC3 together with AVC. Before that all scene releases were avi's. As more and more content is HD, then more and more scene releases will be using mkv.

Look at the popularity of DivX SAP's. You can't tell me that it isn't mostly due to downloaded avi's. People used to ask (not here) about converting avi's to DVD video. Now they ask about converting mkv's to avi's.

[LigH]

blowing away the dust...

Is there any resurrection of the projects which died together with the corecodec.org server? Or will such long expected projects like the USF editor, or even the Matroska (Video) Editor, never get released?