View source for Matroska

* Extensions: mkv, mka, mks
* Website: http://matroska.org
* Specification: http://www.matroska.org/technical/index.html
* MIME Type: 
** mkv: video/mkv

Matroska is a free, general-purpose container format designed to supplant currently existing container formats like [[AVI]]. The shortcomings in the Matroska design sparked the development of [[NUT]].

==Codec IDs==

An incomplete list of Matroska codec IDs can be found here: http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/codecid/index.html
<br>Haali media splitter has another list here: http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/codecs.pdf

The following Codec IDs are known to be in use:

*V_DIRAC: [[Dirac]] [http://diracvideo.org/wiki/DiracInMatroska]
*V_MS/VFW/FOURCC: VfW compatibility mode
*V_MPEG1: [[MPEG-1]]
*V_MPEG2: [[MPEG-2]]
*V_MPEG4/ISO/SP: [[MPEG-4]] part 2 Simple Profile (divx4)
*V_MPEG4/ISO/ASP: [[MPEG-4]] part 2 Advanced Simple Profile
*V_MPEG4/ISO/AP: MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Profile ([[H.264]])
*V_MPEG4/MS/V3: Divx3
*V_REAL/RV10: [[RealVideo]] 1
*V_REAL/RV20: [[RealVideo G2]]
*V_REAL/RV30: [[RealVideo 3]]
*V_REAL/RV40: [[RealVideo 4]]
*V_SNOW: FFmpeg [[Snow]]
*V_THEORA: Xiph [[Theora]]
*V_QUICKTIME: Quicktime compatiblity mode (mainly for [[SVQ3]])
*V_UNCOMPRESSED: Uncompressed, format defined by KaxCodecColourSpace
*V_VC1: Deprecated; Use V_MS/VFW/FOURCC with [[WMV3]] or [[WVC1]] instead [https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-August/034825.html]
*V_VP8: VP8 [http://www.webmproject.org/]
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*A_AAC: [[Advanced Audio Coding]]
*A_AAC/MPEGx/y: Obsolete; Use A_AAC instead
*A_AC3: [[A52|ATSC A/52a]]
*A_EAC3: [[A52|ATSC A/52b]] [http://lists.matroska.org/pipermail/matroska-devel/2007-April/003174.html]
*A_DTS: [[DTS|DTS Coherent Acoustics]]
*A_FLAC: [[FLAC]]
*A_MPC: [[Musepack]] SV8
*A_MPEG/L1: [[MP1]]
*A_MPEG/L2: [[MP2]]
*A_MPEG/L3: [[MP3]]
*A_PCM/INT/BIG: Uncompressed PCM, Big-Endian
*A_PCM/INT/LIT: Uncompressed PCM, Little-Endian
*A_PCM/FLOAT/IEEE: Uncompressed PCM, IEEE floating-point
*A_REAL/14_4: [[VSELP]]
*A_REAL/28_8: [[RealAudio 28.8]]
*A_REAL/ATRC: [[Sony ATRAC|ATRAC3]], using Real extradata and xor format ([[RealAudio atrc]])
*A_REAL/COOK: [[RealAudio cook]]
*A_REAL/SIPR: [[RealAudio sipr]]
*A_TTA1: [[TTA|True Audio lossless]]
*A_VORBIS: [[Vorbis]]
*A_WAVPACK4: [[WavPack]]
*A_QUICKTIME: Quicktime compatibility (uncommon)
*A_MS/ACM: Windows ACM compatibility (uncommon)

;Proposed but not yet implemented:

*A_SPEEX: [[Speex]] [http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Oggless]

==<br /> References ==

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