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Old 16th March 2010, 18:06   #1483  |  Link
Mosu
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Originally Posted by Foofaraw View Post
Would you say its a good format for streaming video? (Via media players, not the internet)
Depends on your definition of "streaming" and the type of media player in question. I'm using an Asus O!Play myself and play my files back from a network share. Some people call that streaming. Works flawlessly.

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Reason I'm wondering is because someone said we can't see how long tracks are but you have to scan the entire file to figure it out (i would have thought there was a header somewhere).
True, but no player should have to know the length of any track in order to play back a file. MP4 is no better in this regard than Matroska: Either it's "true" streaming (meaning the player cannot seek in the file it reads -- in that case neither format usually has information about total length available) or it's a seekable file (in which cases a player can get the total length from both file types, the methods are just different).
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