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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Not interested. I'd far rather get/collect my content into a standard file format like h.264, something that will remain useable and playable on a variety of device in the future as its an industry standard.
I know you can crack open mkv's and extract the h.264 encoded video data, but I don't see the format remaining very popular long term (and I mean long term in the sense of how long people collected physical DVD's - 10+ years). In fact, I'm seeing more and more straight h.264 encodes out "there"
This is strictly my own approach though - I think its great the people have found ways to leverage the platform to fit their own needs/uses
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H.264 is a video codec while mkv is a container format, they're completely differently things. What your referring to is the "mp4" container format (or MPEG-4 Part 14 to be precise). Given the explosion of players that support MKV (WDTV, Popcorn Hour, Asus O!player) I definitely see mkv becoming a De Facto standard.