It offers higher flexibility and is compatible with both audio and video files. It is commonly used by manufacturers (those produce mobile products) as well as by Apple for audio, video and still images. Technical details in depth are available only for private and commercial use. Other meanings for this word in Russia are a sailor suit and a female sailor. Besides this, ‘Matroska' is derived from a Russian word that is ‘Matryoshka’ and it refers to a hollow Russian doll which opens to uncover another doll, this doll then again opens to reveal next doll and the process goes on. It should be noted that not all the media players support this file format but only selective ones like VLC. The codecs that are linked to this format are. MKS for audio and subtitles respectively. MKV is used only for video files(may have subtitles and audio).MK3D for stereoscopic video. Files in this format use distinctive extensions for storing the data. It can be used with ease as it is highly adaptive and can accept any audio and video.įiles in MKV format store each track in varied dataline. Furthermore, it allows online streaming and fast seeking which are alluring features. It is an open-source software or has open specifications, whereas, others are different. Although, it has a similar concept that of AVI, MP4 etc., yet, there is one difference. An unlimited amount of data such as an infinite number of audios, videos, pictures, arbitrary files like XML and subtitle tracks can be stored in MKV files.

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