AMV: no duration/format displayed & mkv support

[Dreizehn†]

Here I have one of my AMVs which is encoded in matroska.
But neither duration nor anything else is showed. The other AMVs (XVID) do have this description.

I don't understand why mkv is not supported. It could take away much of traffic: My AMV has a good quality (just check out) and only 16 MB with a duration of 3:56. It does work. But in this situaiton everyone thinks it is a broken file.

[Orwell]

Your putting the file into a MKV container is going to kill more traffic to your video than a time code not being displayed ever will. They'll assume its broken because their simple player doesn't play back MKV, not because they assume since the timecode doesn't display it won't work. If somebody complained, that was probably the reason. The quality itself is decent for how long the video is and how small the file is, but a sharpening filter probably would have helped.

[Dreizehn†]

I think I used the wrong words ^^°

The AMV is okay the way it is. The quality is real good - and the size absolute small.

I am sure that the a-m-v.org-server has great amounts of data transfer.
Therefore I wonder why H.264-codec/mkv-container aren't supported because It would mean that a great amount of data transfer would be killed.


I didn't understand your laste sentence ^^°

[Kai Stromler]

Menschen sind im Durchschnitt extrem bloed. Deswegen verstehen sie nicht, dass ein Matroska-file ein Matroska-file ist, und kein gebrochenes AVI oder WMV. Ja, es waere doch besser, wenn die .org Timecode usw. fuer alle moeglichen Formats vorstellte, aber es maechte nix vor Massendummheit.

--K

[Keeper of Hellfire]

I don't understand why mkv is not supported. It could take away much of traffic: My AMV has a good quality (just check out) and only 16 MB with a duration of 3:56.

It isn't the use of mkv which makes the AMV that small, because mkv is only a container like avi. It depends on the codecs used for video and audio. If you feed a mkv with XviD and MP3 it'll end up with a similar size like an avi with the same streams. If you have used a h.264 codec for video and an AAC codec for audio it can be put in a mp4 container (which is the industry standard) and will have a similar size like your mkv.

As far as it goes for the implementation of the support of this site, there are much more popular formats that aren't supported correctly or at all, so you'll probably need much patience until mkv will be supported.

[Dreizehn†]

It isn't the use of mkv which makes the AMV that small, because mkv is only a container like avi. It depends on the codecs used for video and audio. If you feed a mkv with XviD and MP3 it'll end up with a similar size like an avi with the same streams. If you have used a h.264 codec for video and an AAC codec for audio it can be put in a mp4 container (which is the industry standard) and will have a similar size like your mkv.

Sorry, bad mistake of mine.

As far as it goes for the implementation of the support of this site, there are much more popular formats that aren't supported correctly or at all, so you'll probably need much patience until mkv will be supported.

It is not just for me. As I already said: It could kill more than half of the traffic on the a-m-v.org-server. Therefore I can't understand why it isn't supported. I have no problem in changing it into xvid and uploading it. Okay... bigger file -> more traffic. But it is not my traffic. I just thought it would be good to use smaller files.

[BasharOfTheAges]

You misunderstand. People won't download the mkv BECAUSE it's an MKV (they are afraid and ignorant when it comes to that format). So, the fact that the info isn't up there isn't really that relevant in the long run.