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Originally Posted by photon
People want to use MKV because it's an open spec, not a proprietary one.
Lots of other devices support MKV, just not closed devices designed to force you into using their proprietary containers so they can enforce their DRM on you.  |
Just so we're clear, I'm talking about trying to watch media on my 360 (and my PS3 before that). Both support DivX, H.264, MP3, AAC, etc etc. The contents of the MKV files that people upload are (usually) encoded using these widely-supported standards... they just choose to wrap them in this ######ed mkv container that pretty much no main-stream media device supports.
The open source argument is bunk. It costs exactly zero dollars to wrap these files in an mp4 container.