MATROSKA MULTİMEDİA CONTAİNER

Süreyya Emre Kurt

Outline

What is Matroska MC Under the hood What are advantages

What is Matroska

Open source multimedia container .mkv (video), .mk3d (3d video), .mka

(audio), .mks (subtitle) Supports every video & audio formats Can be used in streams Supports numerous caption format

Under The Hood

Extensible Binary Meta-Language (EBML) tags Header: EBML version info Meta Seek: Index of parts(nr) Segment: Title, unique ID etc. Track: Type, resolution etc. Chapter: Predefined jump points Clusters: Video & Audio Cueing Data: Index of tracks, to seek Attachment: Subtitles, pictures etc. Tagging: Like ID3 tags. About authors.

What Are Advantages

More video format support More audio format support More subtitle format support Support for 3D, stream, attachment, tags

etc. Open Source

Video Format Support Table

MPEG -1,2,4

H-265

WMV Real Video

Theora

MicrosoftMPEG4v2

VP8 MVC

AVI Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?

MP4 Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

OGG Yes ? Yes No Yes ? ? ?

QuickT

Yes ? Yes No Yes ? ? ?

WebM No ? No No No No Yes No

MKV Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Audio Support Table

MP3

WMA

Vorbis

Opus

AAC FLAC

AC-3

MLP

DTS-3D

PCM

AVI Yes Yes No ? Yes No Yes No ? Yes

MP4 Yes Yes No ? Yes No Yes No Yes No

OGG Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes

QT Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No No Yes

WebM No No Yes Yes No No No No No No

MKV Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Subtitle Support

# of supported subtitle format

AVI 3 (via 3rd party)

MP4 2

OGG 3

QuickTime 0

Matroska 12

Other Supports

Tag Support

Stream S.

Attachment

3D support

Hardware S.

AVI Yes No No No Yes

MP4 Yes Yes Yes No Yes

OGG Yes Yes No No Yes

QuickTime

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

WebM Pending Yes No No Yes

Matroska Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes