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Mosu · 27th May 2010, 10:55

mkvalidator is developed by Steve Lhomme (robux4), one of the co-creators of Matroska. Yes, its analysis is mostly valid, however it's also a very new tool and there are bugs and inconsistencies it doesn't account for. It would be best if you could talk to robux4 directly, e.g. on IRC (irc.corecodec.com, channel #matroska).

For example, mkvalidator assumes ideal files in which each cluster starts with a key frame in order to make seeking as fast as possible. This is technically unnecessary, and mkvmerge will never write such files, because its current way is not really worse and supported by all readers anyway. That's why it's only a warning in mkvalidator, not an error. It basically says "this file might be improved".

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Mosu MKVToolNix author Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Braunschweig, Germany Posts: 4,281	mkvalidator is developed by Steve Lhomme (robux4), one of the co-creators of Matroska. Yes, its analysis is mostly valid, however it's also a very new tool and there are bugs and inconsistencies it doesn't account for. It would be best if you could talk to robux4 directly, e.g. on IRC (irc.corecodec.com, channel #matroska). For example, mkvalidator assumes ideal files in which each cluster starts with a key frame in order to make seeking as fast as possible. This is technically unnecessary, and mkvmerge will never write such files, because its current way is not really worse and supported by all readers anyway. That's why it's only a warning in mkvalidator, not an error. It basically says "this file might be improved". __________________ Latest MKVToolNix is v83.0 If I ever ask you to upload something, please use my file server. Last edited by Mosu; 27th May 2010 at 11:33.