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edited April 2012
Also I don't know if Netflix did anything (they haven't updated the app at least) but the quality of the stream has improved significantly. Avatar used to be a blocky mess and now it's passable.
Also I don't know if Netflix did anything (they haven't updated the app at least) but the quality of the stream has improved significantly. Avatar used to be a blocky mess and now it's passable.
Amazon Prime doesn't have quite their selection, but very frequently has the HD versions of the stuff they do have, and even the regular stream seems to be of pretty high quality.
MKV is a pretty shitty container format with horrendous device support. The only thing it really has going for it is that it's open source and has some obscure features that no one actually uses and no players support, like the ability to embed menus.
As someone who uses this.
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You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
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Also I don't know if Netflix did anything (they haven't updated the app at least) but the quality of the stream has improved significantly. Avatar used to be a blocky mess and now it's passable.
Amazon Prime doesn't have quite their selection, but very frequently has the HD versions of the stuff they do have, and even the regular stream seems to be of pretty high quality.
I wish they had an iOS app but I guess it's understandable they don't. I am going to renew Prime in May and it should upgrade me from Student so I'll be able to watch that stuff.
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You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
It's not just regular incompatibility. You should see the effort that Plex has to put into streaming MKVs when going file server to PC on computer networks. And playback still will stutter from time to time, even though the mean bitrate of the video is within the network's capability. It's just kind of a crummy format and I've never been particularly happy with it. MP4 by contrast frontloads special metadata so that even if the server is bandwidth limited and knows nothing about the contents of the video, the client can make smart choices about how it loads and plays the file. It was designed by people who knew what the hell they were doing and had practical uses and real devices in mind.
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You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
It's not just regular incompatibility. You should see the effort that Plex has to put into streaming MKVs when going file server to PC on computer networks. And playback still will stutter from time to time, even though the mean bitrate of the video is within the network's capability. It's just kind of a crummy format and I've never been particularly happy with it. MP4 by contrast frontloads special metadata so that even if the server is bandwidth limited and knows nothing about the contents of the video, the client can make smart choices about how it loads and plays the file. It was designed by people who knew what the hell they were doing and had practical uses and real devices in mind.
So say I remux the file myself, and take the video and audio out of the MKV container and put it in an MP4. Will that achieve the same thing as fully transcoding it as far as these advantages are concerned? Because remuxxing is a hell of a lot faster than transcoding and I'd do that if there were any gains.
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Crap. I got hit with the rank negative score bug in BF3. I'm ~5000 points over what I need for the next rank, but it won't progress, and instead shows I need negative points.
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You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
It's not just regular incompatibility. You should see the effort that Plex has to put into streaming MKVs when going file server to PC on computer networks. And playback still will stutter from time to time, even though the mean bitrate of the video is within the network's capability. It's just kind of a crummy format and I've never been particularly happy with it. MP4 by contrast frontloads special metadata so that even if the server is bandwidth limited and knows nothing about the contents of the video, the client can make smart choices about how it loads and plays the file. It was designed by people who knew what the hell they were doing and had practical uses and real devices in mind.
So say I remux the file myself, and take the video and audio out of the MKV container and put it in an MP4. Will that achieve the same thing as fully transcoding it as far as these advantages are concerned? Because remuxxing is a hell of a lot faster than transcoding and I'd do that if there were any gains.
Well, the plex server / app combo will probably strip it anyway, since they have that whole server thing going. It's easier to design one good streaming server and 12 modular container format parsers than it is to design multiple streaming setups for the formats that stream well.
But sure. If you were to convert the MKVs to MP4s without transcoding and throw those files on an HTTP server or something, they would stream to most iOS and Android devices with no special software at all. Which is how the technology was designed to function.
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Matt, that's simple. Get so many points so there's an overflow. Like a few billion.
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Oh shiz, Korra in 1080p for free finished downloading off iTunes. Gonna see how sexy these pixels are.
You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
It's not just regular incompatibility. You should see the effort that Plex has to put into streaming MKVs when going file server to PC on computer networks. And playback still will stutter from time to time, even though the mean bitrate of the video is within the network's capability. It's just kind of a crummy format and I've never been particularly happy with it. MP4 by contrast frontloads special metadata so that even if the server is bandwidth limited and knows nothing about the contents of the video, the client can make smart choices about how it loads and plays the file. It was designed by people who knew what the hell they were doing and had practical uses and real devices in mind.
So say I remux the file myself, and take the video and audio out of the MKV container and put it in an MP4. Will that achieve the same thing as fully transcoding it as far as these advantages are concerned? Because remuxxing is a hell of a lot faster than transcoding and I'd do that if there were any gains.
Well, the plex server / app combo will probably strip it anyway, since they have that whole server thing going. It's easier to design one good streaming server and 12 modular container format parsers than it is to design multiple streaming setups for the formats that stream well.
But sure. If you were to convert the MKVs to MP4s without transcoding and throw those files on an HTTP server or something, they would stream to most iOS and Android devices with no special software at all. Which is how the technology was designed to function.
It's just that I picked PLEX in the first place because Air Video doesn't support 1080p yet. If PLEX is already taking care of me I don't need to look for better compatibility, you know?
You guys, MKV is so good that we need special programs to extract the H.264 stream in real time, then analyze it and stream it out to devices in a more manageable form.
Best format ever.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
It's not just regular incompatibility. You should see the effort that Plex has to put into streaming MKVs when going file server to PC on computer networks. And playback still will stutter from time to time, even though the mean bitrate of the video is within the network's capability. It's just kind of a crummy format and I've never been particularly happy with it. MP4 by contrast frontloads special metadata so that even if the server is bandwidth limited and knows nothing about the contents of the video, the client can make smart choices about how it loads and plays the file. It was designed by people who knew what the hell they were doing and had practical uses and real devices in mind.
So say I remux the file myself, and take the video and audio out of the MKV container and put it in an MP4. Will that achieve the same thing as fully transcoding it as far as these advantages are concerned? Because remuxxing is a hell of a lot faster than transcoding and I'd do that if there were any gains.
Well, the plex server / app combo will probably strip it anyway, since they have that whole server thing going. It's easier to design one good streaming server and 12 modular container format parsers than it is to design multiple streaming setups for the formats that stream well.
But sure. If you were to convert the MKVs to MP4s without transcoding and throw those files on an HTTP server or something, they would stream to most iOS and Android devices with no special software at all. Which is how the technology was designed to function.
It's just that I picked PLEX in the first place because Air Video doesn't support 1080p yet. If PLEX is already taking care of me I don't need to look for better compatibility, you know?
You don't need to listen to me. I am just ranting about things that I am well aware that no one cares about. You found something that works and maintains maximum quality, which is what you wanted. Nothing else matters.
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such a good movie!
I might have.
I wonder if it really needed to be so many pieces, oh well, it looks fucking BAD ASS at least.
As someone who uses this.
Goose you
Best format ever.
I wish they had an iOS app but I guess it's understandable they don't. I am going to renew Prime in May and it should upgrade me from Student so I'll be able to watch that stuff.
Screenshot so we can be impressed or ridicule you.
It was an epic story of love, loss, and track and field. It will be in Desc's hands now.
I would hump the shit out of that.
That's just regular incompatibility. Gonna always happen. I'm not married to MKV but that's what I have to work with if I don't want to transcode into a second format. I'm at least glad I have the option to remux
There was one we used to play as a chat group but the name is escaping me.
Oh you used the trash to create multiple pages?
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It's not just regular incompatibility. You should see the effort that Plex has to put into streaming MKVs when going file server to PC on computer networks. And playback still will stutter from time to time, even though the mean bitrate of the video is within the network's capability. It's just kind of a crummy format and I've never been particularly happy with it. MP4 by contrast frontloads special metadata so that even if the server is bandwidth limited and knows nothing about the contents of the video, the client can make smart choices about how it loads and plays the file. It was designed by people who knew what the hell they were doing and had practical uses and real devices in mind.
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So say I remux the file myself, and take the video and audio out of the MKV container and put it in an MP4. Will that achieve the same thing as fully transcoding it as far as these advantages are concerned? Because remuxxing is a hell of a lot faster than transcoding and I'd do that if there were any gains.
You're a poet who'll blow it, Eddy.
Well, the plex server / app combo will probably strip it anyway, since they have that whole server thing going. It's easier to design one good streaming server and 12 modular container format parsers than it is to design multiple streaming setups for the formats that stream well.
But sure. If you were to convert the MKVs to MP4s without transcoding and throw those files on an HTTP server or something, they would stream to most iOS and Android devices with no special software at all. Which is how the technology was designed to function.
Sorry for dropping, my xbox live crapped out. Good games though.
It's just that I picked PLEX in the first place because Air Video doesn't support 1080p yet. If PLEX is already taking care of me I don't need to look for better compatibility, you know?
no, its real - AT&T is seeing massive demand for the phone, and they are short on supply.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
You don't need to listen to me. I am just ranting about things that I am well aware that no one cares about. You found something that works and maintains maximum quality, which is what you wanted. Nothing else matters.
but for my other camera should i bring my 18-200 lens or a different one
No, you don't. You don't wonder that at all.
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Someone get some chocolate for Cathy.