What is the format of mkv?

Matroska (Russian: матроска) is a multimedia packaging format, which can accommodate an unlimited number of video, audio, pictures or subtitle tracks in one file. So it is not a compressed format, but a multimedia container file defined by Matroska.

It is also one of the open source multimedia packaging formats. Many people regard Matroska as mkv, but mkv is just a file format in Matroska media series.

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Development of mkv(Matroska)

Mkv(Matroska) was launched on February 6, 2002, 65438, which was derived from multimedia packaging format. Prior to this, Lassek, the main developer of MCF? rkk？ Inen and SteveLhomme had an argument about whether to use extensible binary language or their own binary format, and Steve then created the Matroska project.

At the same time, the main developers of MCF stopped developing for six months because of military service, which led most developers in the community to turn to new projects. 20 10 released the WebM audio and video format, which is based on a preset of Matroska container and uses VP8 video and Vorbis audio. On October 2014101October 3 1 day, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 10 will support HEVC and Matro Ska "out of the box".

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