MKV - Matroska Media ContainerÂ
Matroska the open source, open standard Multimedia container. Matroska is usually found as .MKV files (matroska video), .MKA files (matroska audio) and .MKS files (subtitles) and .MK3D files (stereoscopic/3D video). It is also the basis for .webm (WebM) files.
http://www.matroska.org/technical/guides/faq/index.html
Editor
MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
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Converter
mkv2vob is a program which will remux mkv with x264 video and AC3 audio to a vob file or Blu-ray/AVCHD which is playable on the sony ps3. No transcoding/ recompression is done(mpeg2 transcoding for some files that wont work on the ps3), the streams are simply split and mux into the vob. Subtitle support.
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Thumbnails
Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg, this includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.
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Matroska Cover Art Guidelines (Use with MKVToolNix)









