Users of DaVinci Resolve (DR for short) have been asking for more output codecs and more control over the existing ones for years. While Blackmagic has added quite a few over time, you still don’t get ...

I recently recieved some mkv files from a friend and tried to play them using windows media player classic (the newest version) and it wouldnt play. So i downloaded the matroska full pack from their ...

I wasn't sure which forum to put this question in, and if this is the wrong one, then I apologize in advance. I've been using Handbrake to convert my dvds first to avi files, and now with the release ...

The world of video formats can be pretty confusing, but there are only a few things you really need to know. First, it's important to note that a video format is more than just its file extension.

Having read up on containers from Monty's blog: Matroska is good for progressive downloading, which is enough for the YouTube use case. WebM requires an index as the ...

The MKV format (Matroska Video) is one that has been around for a very long time now, and it is loved for its high quality and flexibility. It has been supported by many web browsers, and even Windows ...

Premiere Pro can reject a video with "The file has an unsupported compression type" even though the filename ends in .mp4, .mov, or .avi and the clip ...

Video codecs attract most of the attention in the multimedia format wars, from Theora adoption in HTML5 to debates about the subjective quality and objective technical demands of Dirac versus H.264.