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.

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 ...

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 ...

Like the title says, do you give up anything by using the M4V container versus an MKV? I am going for a "universal" conversion for DVD movies. The Handbrake conversion I use is basically: High Profile ...