MKV - Matroska Video, File Format Information and Conversion

MKV - Matroska Video

Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it significantly because it is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility, without breaking file support in old parsers.

It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is completely open source. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (and audio) and .MKA for audio-only files.

 

www.matroska.org 

Convert from MKV(Matroska Video)

To convert from MKV(Matroska Video), you will need Video Cleaner.

To extract audio from MKV(Matroska Video), you will need Audio Converter.

Please see the following tutorials.

3G2(3GPP2 Mobile Video)	Tutorial: MKV to 3G2
3GP(3GP Mobile Video)	Tutorial: MKV to 3GP
AIF(AIFF/AIFC Apple Audio)	Tutorial: MKV to AIF
AVI(Audio Video Interleaved)	Tutorial: MKV to AVI
DIVX(DivX Video)	Tutorial: MKV to DIVX
DV(Digital Video Cassette)	Tutorial: MKV to DV
GIF(Animated GIF)	Tutorial: MKV to GIF
JPEG(JPEG Image)	Tutorial: MKV to JPEG
M4A(MPEG-4 Audio)	Tutorial: MKV to M4A
MKV(Matroska Video)	Tutorial: MKV to MKV
MOV(QuickTime Movie)	Tutorial: MKV to MOV
MP3(MPEG Layer-3)	Tutorial: MKV to MP3
MP4/M4V(MPEG-4 Video)	Tutorial: MKV to MP4/M4V
MPA(MPEG Audio)	Tutorial: MKV to MPA
MPEG-1(MPEG-1 Video)	Tutorial: MKV to MPEG-1
MPEG-2(MPEG-2 Video)	Tutorial: MKV to MPEG-2
OGG(OGG Vorbis Audio)	Tutorial: MKV to OGG
OGM(OGG Media)	Tutorial: MKV to OGM
RA(RealAudio)	Tutorial: MKV to RA
RM(RealMedia)	Tutorial: MKV to RM
VOB(DVD Media File)	Tutorial: MKV to VOB
WAV(Waveform)	Tutorial: MKV to WAV
WMA(Windows Media Audio)	Tutorial: MKV to WMA
WMV(Windows Media Video)	Tutorial: MKV to WMV
XVID(XVID Video)	Tutorial: MKV to XVID

Convert to MKV(Matroska Video)

To convert to MKV(Matroska Video), you will need Video Cleaner. Please see the following tutorials.

3G2(3GPP2 Mobile Video)	Tutorial: 3G2 to MKV
3GP(3GP Mobile Video)	Tutorial: 3GP to MKV
ASF(Advanced Streaming Format)	Tutorial: ASF to MKV
AVI(Audio Video Interleaved)	Tutorial: AVI to MKV
DIVX(DivX Video)	Tutorial: DIVX to MKV
DV(Digital Video Cassette)	Tutorial: DV to MKV
DVD(Digital Versatile Disk)	Tutorial: DVD to MKV
DVR-MS(Microsoft Digital Video Recordin)	Tutorial: DVR-MS to MKV
EVOB(HD-DVD and BlueRay Enhanced VOB)	Tutorial: EVOB to MKV
FLV(Flash Video)	Tutorial: FLV to MKV
GIF(Animated GIF)	Tutorial: GIF to MKV
HDTV(High Definition Video)	Tutorial: HDTV to MKV
MKV(Matroska Video)	Tutorial: MKV to MKV
MOV(QuickTime Movie)	Tutorial: MOV to MKV
MP4/M4V(MPEG-4 Video)	Tutorial: MP4/M4V to MKV
MPEG-1(MPEG-1 Video)	Tutorial: MPEG-1 to MKV
MPEG-2(MPEG-2 Video)	Tutorial: MPEG-2 to MKV
NUV(MythTV)	Tutorial: NUV to MKV
OGM(OGG Media)	Tutorial: OGM to MKV
PVA(Hauppauge Video Recording)	Tutorial: PVA to MKV
RM(RealMedia)	Tutorial: RM to MKV
SVCD(Super VCD)	Tutorial: SVCD to MKV
VCD(VideoCD 2.0)	Tutorial: VCD to MKV
VOB(DVD Media File)	Tutorial: VOB to MKV
VRO(DVD-Recording)	Tutorial: VRO to MKV
WMV(Windows Media Video)	Tutorial: WMV to MKV
XVID(XVID Video)	Tutorial: XVID to MKV