MKV
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
MKV, or Matroska (as it is known to the chimps that developed it), is a Media Container which is used to share movies online by incompetent fools. Unlike the superior MPEG4 container MKV Specifications do not list which codecs can be used which prevents manufactures of hardware based players from providing support.
Even if a device “supports “ MKV there is no guarantee that any particular file will playback . Despite not even being recognized as a media file on the latest versions of Windows and OSX MKV still enjoys the support of pirates due to a number of myths .
The .mkv format is seen by the community as being "cool" and a mark of a clued up user. This is mostly because it is less widely supported, and can be harder to use than the more mainstream container formats. In communities like the movie/episode piracy community, technical merit is only one of two requirements on a technology - the other is community perception.
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Playback
Unlike other containers MKV files dont playback out of the box on Windows or OSX , Their playback requires the installation of the Crap Crap Crap Pack or a media player thats stuck in 1995 .
MKV Myths
MKV Files are smaller and have the best quality
The most persistent myth thanks to uploaders who create rubbish 350 MB rips. It is of course nonsense because MKV is a container, The file size is determined by the video and audio bitrate. The same h.264 streams can be muxed to any container with the exact same file size.
MKV can hold an unlimited number of streams, other containers like MP4 don’t
The ISO spec does not and for a good reason, these limitations are put in place for manufactures of hardware based players and are of no concern to the user , In the rare case that you need more than 1MB of streams you can simply ignore the ISO spec and have an unlimited number of streams.
MKV supports any codec, other containers like MP4 don’t
No the ISO standard does not (Ogg) But there is nothing stopping me or anyone else muxing said formats in. This nonsense is contently thrown around as a feature, It’s not its actually an anti-feature because it completely abandons hardware support by updating the "standard" continuously instead of revisions.
MKV is better because the tools are free
Nothing special there , free tools exist for other containers .
Quotes from MKV Pirates
 Nothing to do with the container genius. |
 Muxing doesn't reduce quality. |
 Moron. |
 Bigger Moron. |
 Moron gets owned. |
 Typical MKV uploader. |
 Another Jackass. |
 A typical idiot. |
 Another Moron gets owned. |
Please god make it die
Unfortunately at the present time there is no way to ram this information into the skulls of the chimps that upload these files however MKV can be converted into universally playable MPG/MP4 file in seconds using the appropriate software . Both MKV2Vob and Yamb are perfectly capable of doing this .
Lets face it DRM protected files have more hardware support than MKV and while its completely unintentional MKV is to Movies what DRM is to Music.
