![]() The downside to using MKV is that not every device out there is capable of reading the container to get the streams inside it. ![]() MKV is the "King" in that respect as it offers the most potential for the most possibilities above and beyond all the rest. Newer containers like MP4 and MKV can hold not only the audio and video streams but also chapter markers, captions or subtitle streams, and other data including multiple audio tracks too. For video some of the more popular ones are Divx, Xvid, MPEG1 (VideoCD standard from many years past), MPEG2 (DVD standard), MPEG4 (newer updated more efficient forms), h.264, and others.Ĭontainers are what holds the audio and video streams encoded using the formats above and include: AVI (probably the oldest still used container and the most popular by far), MKV (the "new kid on the block" but it can do most anything), MP4 (yes, it's a container, not a format), M4V (same as MP4 with some additional potentials), Ogg, and nowadays WebM by Google. For audio there's wav, mp3, aac, ogg (Vorbis), raw, and many others. Methinks you're getting into the "format" vs "container" thing - so here's a primer:įormat = the actual encoding format of the audio and video streams, of which there are many.
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