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Matroska
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Matroska (styled Matroška) is a project to create a container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. The Matroska Multimedia Container is similar in concept to other containers like AVI, MP4, or Advanced Systems Format (ASF), but is an open standard.
Key facts
- File format.name
- Matroska
- File format.icon
- 64px|MKV Extension Icon
- File format.extension
- .mkv .mk3d .mka .mks
- File format.mime
- video/matroska video/matroska-3d audio/matroska application/octet-stream (for .mks)
- File format.extendedfrom
- MCF, EBML
- File format.latest_release_version
- 1.7.1
- File format.genre
- Container format
- File format.container for
- Multimedia
- File format.open
- Yes
- File format.free
- Yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Matroska Element Specification
matroska.org →Link to a page describing this subject · 40,000 chars · not written by Vinony
Source code
This repository holds content related to the official Matroska specification and standard. Discussion of the plans for standardization is regulated on the CELLAR listserv. Approved changes should be submitted to this repository as a pull request. The latest draft published from these specifications can be found at the IETF Datatracker. Local versions of the specification can be generated based on code in the Makefile directory and related dependencies. The dependencies required are mmark , xml2rfc and xsltproc . mmark is a Markdown processor written in Go, available here . Installation instructions for xml2rfc (an XML-to-IETF-draft translator written in Python) are available on the IETF Tools page. xsltproc is a command line tool for applying XSLT stylesheets to XML documents. A bootstrap and Makefile are provided to gather dependencies and generate the RFC documents.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,832 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- matroska.org
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- stylized name
- MATROŠKA
- source code repository URL
- github.com/ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-specification
- file format identification pattern
- 1A45DFA3
- Commons category
- Matroska
- software version identifier
- 03
- publication date
- 2002-00-00
- file extension
- mk3d
- media type
- application/x-matroska
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Matroska (styled Matroška) is a project to create a container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. The Matroska Multimedia Container is similar in concept to other containers like AVI, MP4, or Advanced Systems Format (ASF), but is an open standard.
Matroska file extensions are .mkv for video (which may include audio, subtitles and chapters), .mk3d for stereoscopic video, .mka for audio-only files (which may include subtitles), and .mks for subtitles only.