Why mkv file is so famous nowadays?

Where can I download mkv files, any website(legal one - post in reply, pirate one pm me)

Cheers!

popular because of the h264 codec

H264 codec is suitable to compress HD movie. That way HD movie always use MKV extension.

Cause some of buyers now budget to max. Save cost with downloading movies in compressed HD format.
Some like it some dont.

Just my 2 cents

The glory of DIVX codec are almost fade away.

This post has been edited by minimize: Aug 8 2010, 09:18 PM

Understood now. TQ

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Added on August 8, 2010, 11:57 pmEm.. how large is the file size for a normal 2 hours movie??

This post has been edited by happyday119: Aug 8 2010, 11:57 PM

6-8GB...

mkv (Matroska) is a container format, not a codec , just like avi it can contain any codec

its features are :
* Fast seeking in the file
* Chapter entries
* Full metadata (tags) support
* Selectable subtitle/audio/video streams
* Modularly Expendable
* Error resilience (can recover playback even when the stream is damaged)
* Streamable over the internet and local networks (HTTP, CIFS, FTP, etc)
* Menus (like DVDs have)

Not only 6~10GB..some mkv can go up to 40GB as well



Depends on how they set the encoding

This post has been edited by azbro: Aug 9 2010, 12:11 AM

that one is BD format, am i right? but our net speed is so "good", need to takes days to complete a movie, not worth for me la.

Thats why you have something wonderful called "blu-ray disc"..

that the reason our pc on 24/7

They have that sizes for MKV as well

Welcome to the world of MKV

standard 720p HD movie 4.37 gig, the quality same as bluray which size is about 40 gig

that way.. the power of mkv

4.37gb 720p and 10gb 1080p MKV is seriously not same as Bluray quality...

Depends on the equipment you use also to spot the difference

But 40gig MKV and 40gig Bluray same quality 1:1

This post has been edited by azbro: Aug 9 2010, 09:38 AM

12gb for 1080p 8-9 mb video bitrate

the different is only sound la, 40 gig got dts-hd

mkv can have smaller size also between 1 to 2 GB.. It's meant for low quality 720p movie.. quality is like divx movies or better but this one is 720p.

I usually download this one (also called mHD or m720p or micro hd) as I don't really care about video quality.. but I like to enjoy the 5.1 AC3 audio..

This post has been edited by zeese: Aug 9 2010, 10:37 AM

for me PQ of 15gb mkv = bd-iso, only no dts-hd.

Wat are the differences I should be looking out for?