Is anyone planning on making a plugin for foobar so it can play mka files?
Or maybe native support for the mka container would be even better ???
Full Version: No mka support?
What's mka?
Matroska, I suppose...
I never really understood why we need another container format.
Oh, well.
Oh, well.
QUOTE(Curi0us_George @ Aug 14 2003, 08:53 PM)
I never really understood why we need another container format.
Oh, well.
Oh, well.
No clue why for audio, but for video, because avi sucks? =) and the ogm format while beter then avi was thrown together pretty quickly. And mostly because some people decided they wanted to make one, and then did... I'm actually surprised that Matroska managed to come out with a useable format, even if its not feature complete yet, it is very usable right now as a video container, no clue on the audio side of it though, and I don't really understand why you need to put your mp3/aac/what ever inside a container... Though I guess it could be usefull for people who like to keep albums all together and such.
from here
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Q: What is the advantage of using the .mka file instead of the original audio formats, like mp2, mp3 etc?
A: In many cases there is not a reason to store audio only files in MKA. If you have an audio file with a single track, or "song", that you don't intend to edit, then there generally isn't a very good reason to place it in MKA. For instance, you have a song by Metallica in MP3, and you have all of the info filled out in ID3v2.4 tags. There is little reason to place it in Matroska, and it would add a little overhead.
But, here are some reasons that placing audio in MKA is useful:
1. The tags will be the same no matter what audio format you use. That means that if you write a program to read back tags, it only has to read them from one type of tagging system, no matter what type of audio is being used.
2. All tracks to a CD can be in a single file. You have the option of dividing the tracks into seperate Tracks, or seperate Chapters. You could make your own compilation in a single file, even using different audio formats, such as MP3 and Vorbis.
3. If you write a program to read audio of of MKA, then you don't need to understand how the framing works in the different formats because it is already done for you in Matroska.
4. It is easy to delete portions of the audio without reencoding because you just throw away those blocks. You don't even have to be able to play that format back, you could edit by just knowing timecodes.
5. Detecting differences between two audio streams would be easy because you could store both in a single file, start playback, and then just switch between tracks.
6. If you intend to combine the audio with video, then having is in MKA means you can merge it with an MKV, even if the application doesn't support the audio type.
A: In many cases there is not a reason to store audio only files in MKA. If you have an audio file with a single track, or "song", that you don't intend to edit, then there generally isn't a very good reason to place it in MKA. For instance, you have a song by Metallica in MP3, and you have all of the info filled out in ID3v2.4 tags. There is little reason to place it in Matroska, and it would add a little overhead.
But, here are some reasons that placing audio in MKA is useful:
1. The tags will be the same no matter what audio format you use. That means that if you write a program to read back tags, it only has to read them from one type of tagging system, no matter what type of audio is being used.
2. All tracks to a CD can be in a single file. You have the option of dividing the tracks into seperate Tracks, or seperate Chapters. You could make your own compilation in a single file, even using different audio formats, such as MP3 and Vorbis.
3. If you write a program to read audio of of MKA, then you don't need to understand how the framing works in the different formats because it is already done for you in Matroska.
4. It is easy to delete portions of the audio without reencoding because you just throw away those blocks. You don't even have to be able to play that format back, you could edit by just knowing timecodes.
5. Detecting differences between two audio streams would be easy because you could store both in a single file, start playback, and then just switch between tracks.
6. If you intend to combine the audio with video, then having is in MKA means you can merge it with an MKV, even if the application doesn't support the audio type.
Unfortunately the multiple tracks in one file are not implemented. (only multi audio for video is implemented)
QUOTE(Curi0us_George @ Aug 15 2003, 12:53 AM)
I never really understood why we need another container format.
Oh, well.
Oh, well.
George
.... :sigh: .....All you people being so very much excited about MP4 and its possibilitities, supporting and pushing it, one day you will look like little kids with no clue about how bussiness is being done in real life.
Sure, current licensing shemes for using MP4 are pretty nice, no doubt. But one day, once it has established as the new world standard instead of M$ WMV, and with your support, the MPEG-LA will say thank you, grab your balls and start pressing ....
I replied here, because this thread has matroska in the subject and thus can be found easier by people searching for the word ...
QUOTE(ChristianHJW @ Nov 9 2003, 08:09 AM)
QUOTE(Curi0us_George @ Aug 15 2003, 12:53 AM)
I never really understood why we need another container format.
Oh, well.
Oh, well.
George
.... :sigh: .....All you people being so very much excited about MP4 and its possibilitities, supporting and pushing it, one day you will look like little kids with no clue about how bussiness is being done in real life.
Sure, current licensing shemes for using MP4 are pretty nice, no doubt. But one day, once it has established as the new world standard instead of M$ WMV, and with your support, the MPEG-LA will say thank you, grab your balls and start pressing ....
indeed, but imho you should consider a new name for the container.
"Matroska" sounds like an idealistic pseudo-communist thing, and I dont want to have anything to do with that
Other people might think the same.. just my 2 cents of course.
If you wanna dance with the MPEG4 crowd that has buzzwords like HE-AAC and whatnot, you can't come up with that Commie stuff that resembles an obese Russian lady in their 50's with hairy armpits and red colored hair
QUOTE(sony666 @ Nov 9 2003, 11:41 PM)
you can't come up with that Commie stuff that resembles an obese Russian lady in their 50's with hairy armpits and red colored hair
You're living in the past. Now they illustrate clowns involved in some perverted rugby variant or something like that. Hairy armpits still there though, I believe.
It's about team spirit idiology now ... lol, I wonder how does this guy the left bottom corner feel about it.
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