What good is the MKV video format?

Modern digital world provides a huge number of ways to produce high-quality content. Of course, most of ordinary users are not too interested in this, but even a non computer person could notice a significant increase in the number of new audio formats and video files. In particular, the huge popularity in the recent years has acquired the MKV format. Speaking more scientifically, it is a separate container file.

As you can tell from the title, this file is used to store information in the “Packed”. Most video files particularly compact no different, and therefore for ease of use they are compressed using special codecs. It is the quality of this compression is largely characterized by the mentioned in MKV format.

In the early 90-ies of the computer industry began to take the first steps in this direction. In particular, it was then at Microsoft, was established extremely popular and to this day, AVI (Audio Video Interleave). And for its time, this discovery was a huge step forward, but today the possibility of the old codec was obviously insufficient. For example, such a file can not fit a lot of additional information about the film. But the MKV format contains such opportunities in abundance.

By the Way, it was created by our compatriots. They have tried to anticipate the demands which will be made live in the coming years. The result is a new container, get a name that speaks “dolls”. Already by name it is possible to represent its internal structure.

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But still, what is so good MKV format? First, it can store several audio tracks in different languages, you can create chapters and even a full menu. In addition, if necessary, it can “pull” audio and video. But the main difference from the old AVI that viewing the MKV format even in the form of files size of several gigabytes will never be bored ‘SAG" and deceleration.

Of Course, this is true only in respect of sufficiently powerful machines, as the old computers that your favorite movie can turn into a real slide show. In addition, for comfortable viewing need a normal video card.

So, to summarize and briefly tell you about the main advantages of the new format.

First I must say that even advanced users find the main content container of the MP4 files, although it is not so. In “doll” can be Packed in the following types of audio and video files: MPRG, H264, AVC1, WMV, etc. it Should be noted that the program used to format MKV (multimediaplayer) needs perfectly to support them. This is great for VLC, KMP and Totem (for .nix systems). However, in recent years support MKV quickly acquire other types of players.

Another pleasant innovation was the excellent stability “dolls” errors, constant updating of the format by a community of developers, and the openness that allowed so to oust even the lobby of the creators of the proprietary codec, which until recently opposed the introduction of support for MKV format in a modern Blu-ray players.