MKV is a container format for bundling together streams of audio, video, and text. It does not provide the actual video compression, which is still typically h.264 or h.265.
The other answer you got hits it on the head already.
Here’s an additional piece of info you might like: The webm container format is actually a specific subset of Matroska. The big players in the web recognised that it was a very useful open container format and adopted it for the web. They took a subset to make implementation in browsers easier and more uniform.
Shit I hadn’t heard of that. That makes me sad. I know from reading developer blogs at the time that they tried to use less established techniques in some places to try and avoid similarities. Let’s hope it proves to be enough in the lawsuit. That would be horrible if some dusty encumbant can crush the new codec at a critical time of its global adotion.
Which royalty free alternatives exist?
Theora, VP8, VP9, and AV1 are the ones that come to mind.
What about Matroska? That was open to begin with, wasn’t it? Is it not good for streaming?
MKV is a container format for bundling together streams of audio, video, and text. It does not provide the actual video compression, which is still typically h.264 or h.265.
Understood. They mentioned mpeg4 in the text, which (because of the MP4 container) got me on that route. Thanks for the clarification.
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The other answer you got hits it on the head already.
Here’s an additional piece of info you might like: The webm container format is actually a specific subset of Matroska. The big players in the web recognised that it was a very useful open container format and adopted it for the web. They took a subset to make implementation in browsers easier and more uniform.
I did not know that, and I do like that piece of info! Thanks!
Didn’t Dolby just sue Snap for using AV1? Claiming it uses similar techniques to h264 or 265 or something?
Shit I hadn’t heard of that. That makes me sad. I know from reading developer blogs at the time that they tried to use less established techniques in some places to try and avoid similarities. Let’s hope it proves to be enough in the lawsuit. That would be horrible if some dusty encumbant can crush the new codec at a critical time of its global adotion.
I hope this lawsuit starts a trail of failures for Dolby and they go under.
Believe its similar techniques to h.265 for AV1. That’s still going on…not sure if it will go anywhere.