Remux TV Progs to Matroska Video .mkv

[fred.d]

Be careful. As others have said mp4 and mkv are container formats and 
this is what is associated with the extension. It's more important in 
the what can play the video decision.

The compression (or not) comes from the codec, but again some codecs can 
do both compressed (lossy ) and uncompressed (lossless)

Note also just to confuse folk, there is an MPEG4 codec, which I thought 
for a while was what mp4 used.

Unfortunately none of this is simple and ultimately the only way I found 
to settle on what I wanted for my video collection was try a number of 
containers and compressions and evaluate which gave me the best overall 
result over many different types of film and tv program. (Plus side that 
took a few weeks with bottles of wine and the better half helping 
evaluate the results...)

Then it was the case of what simplified the various sourcing processes 
and finally - compromise, which I think is where you're at here.

To be honest, with the number of streaming services around these days 
I'm more selective and don't keep as many broadcast items as I used to. 
- It costs me less to subscribe to 3 or 4 services than it does to build 
and run a file server for a 10 year period. The added advantage is that 
many of the things I recorded in 1080 x 720 or whatever are now 
streamable in full HD and even with the bitrate that comes down the line 
to me it's better than my 10 year old recordings.

For more info you could do worse than these two:

raw info: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_container_formats

or for a more readable piece: 
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/all-you-need-to-know-about-video-codecs-containers-and-compression/

On 10/07/2022 17:40, Computing wrote:
> Oh, I was lead to believe that .mp4 was a lossy format, where as .mkv 
> is not.
>
> That is what I was trying to avoid
>
> Martin
>
> On 09/07/2022 23:01, David Cantrell wrote:
>> As far as I know conversion to mp4 is just changing the container 
>> format, there’s no recompression.
>>
>
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