http://www.matroska.org
Et oui, apres 2 ans de development, Matroska est enfin là en version alpha !
Matroska est un container video destiné a remplacer l'AVI et l'OGM. Fort de ses specifications, il est robuste et tres flexible, etant basé sur un equivalent du XML en binaire, l'ebml. De plus il en grande partie français
Voici le texte en anglais, tiré de http://www.matroska.org
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Why matroska ?
There were various reasons to create matroska. You can simply check the list of features we support to realise that there is no such container existing so far. AVI is old now and requires dirty hacks to add new features. OGM is somehow closed and lacks any involvement. MP4 is very new and controlled by large companies.
Despite the verbose nature of EBML (like XML/HTML compared to a simple structured text), matroska is space efficient. It is smaller than AVI and most of the time smaller than OGM (compared with the same amount of features).
Who is behind matroska ?
Matroska started from the MCF project, another new full-featured container. But we felt like going even further than what MCF had to propose through EBML and extensibility. The whole format revolves around a few basic principles.
We have received help from various people during the 2 years of combined development (matroska + MCF). The list would be too long to put here. But we'll put a tribute page here soon. All these people have given some of their time for free to matroska to build this challenging project.
The short list of people highly involved are : robUx4, ChristianHJW, Spyder482, Pamel, Cyrius (VDubMod), Mosu, jcsston, BlackSun (CoreCodec), Toff (CoreCodec), BetaBoy (CoreCodec), BelgaBor (VDubMod), Liisachan, Ayaka, Marlena, SarreqTex, Tronic and Ingo Ralf Blum.
Site officiel: http://www.matroska.org
Page Projet: http://corecodec.org/projects/matroska/
Version 0.6 !
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Hi everyone,
As there is an article planned about our project in the German PC magazine 'CHIP' ( to come out beginning of September ) and we had to hand our software over to them today, 4th august, we take the opportunity to release all the software that was being developed for this release here :
This release makes a long list of additional features in matroska files possible, such as
- chapters
- matroska tags
- attachement files
- CRC32 EDC elements
- file splitting with indexing
- RV9 video in MKV ( Realmedia )
- RA audio in MKV ( RealAudio )
- SSA/ASS subtitles muxing into MKV files
The released tools/programs are :
1. libmatroska/libebml 0.5.0 : the latest basic libraries, necessary for programmers who are planning to support matroska in their tools, or for Linux users who want to compile latest mplayer from CVS against the very latest library version. They can be downloaded from the official download page, direct links are here and here
2. VirtualdubMod 1.5.4.1 : This version is not only fixing a couple of minor bugs, its also adding a couple of very important new features such as
- chapter writing support
- basic tagging support
- writing of CRC32 EDC elements
- editing of non VCM-codec video streams, such as RealVide 9 ( only CFR ) and 'native' MPEG4 ISO MKV files ( to come soon )
Get it from the usual project page
3. MKVtoolnix 0.6.0 : Compiled against latest library, Mosu's package offers the following new features :
- file splitting
- chapter file import and chapter writing
- RealVideo ( rv 10, 20, 30, 40 = RV9 ) and RealAudio muxing ( Cook, ATRAC, RALF, SIPRO, etc. )
- SSA subtitle muxing, only UTF8 ( no UTF16 yet )
- CRC32
Its for download at the usual MKVtoolnix homepage, including win32 binaries based on mingw .
4. New matroska playback pack for Windows : It does include
- Gabest' latest matroskasplitter filter, with chapter support via COM ( only certain player like MPC and TCMP RC4 will suupport that for now )
- CoreVorbis
- Timestamp manager from DaveEL ( for native MPEG4 ISO MKV files, to come soon )
- MatrixMixer filter
- Gabest' latest matroskamuxer filter, for file creation on DShow ( optional )
- Gabest' subtitle playback filter DVobSub 2.27 ( optional )
- Gabest' subtitle source filter, for SSA muxing ( optional )
- Gabest' Realmedia splitter/wrapper filters ( optional )
Get the latest version always from the official matroska download page on http://www.matroska.org
5. TCMP RC4 ( The Core Media Player ) with matroska CDL 1.3 :
The team around Blacksun and Toff have greatly improved the player in many details, highlights are
- a new media library
- many many bug fixes
- new skins
- new matroska CDL ( by jcsston ) with matroska tags reading/writing from the player
- new CDL API
- chapter support for matroska
etc.
Get it from the official homepage
6. MPC 6.4.5.9 : This player has found a lot of friends in very short time, it doesnt offer a lot of fancy stuff like various skins or the like, but is working rock solid and with a very good performance, as its coded in C++ . Latest version has improved Realmedia and matroska support, both with included parsers. Additional features to previous versions are
- chapter support in MKV
- RealVideo playback from MKV
- Subtitle syncing from the player
- Capturing into MKV ( from WDM drivers )
From the Guliverkli page
7. Matroska Shell extension v 1.3 : Jory 'jcsston' Stone created this great Windows tool, after installation it will tell you anything you want to know about your files, and even allow you to read/write all existing matroska tags, or to change the display size of a file. Get it here
8. mmg : A new developer and a new tool for the project, Florian 'SirElvis' Wagner created an excellent GUI for Mosu's mkvmerge win32 binaries, so that those users who dont like CLI programs too much can use it very comfortably. There are 2 versions of it, one with an installer that is including mkvtoolnix 0.6.0, and one without ( just the GUI ).
9. Gabest's RealMedia splitter filter : The wizzard programmer and well known author of 'VobSub' took the challenge and created a DirectShow Realmedia splitter filter, as well as some wrapper filter around the Real DLLs, so that playback of Realmedia Files on every DirectShow player is possible. This is the basis of a working 'Realmedia from MKV' playback, as before these filters existed it was impossible to call the REAL DLLs from any matroska parser/splitter filter. They need the 'RealOne' player to be installed on the same PC, as only then the DLLs will be existent to be called from the wrapper filters. Also from the Guliverkli page.
10. VirtualVCR_matroska : A modification to this well known DirectShow based capturing application, using matroskamuxer.ax to capture any content from a WDM capture card into MKV files. To be downloaded here.
11. VLC : the videolan guys have added matroska playback support to their great player, based on 0.4.4 version of the library, so it will play all matroska files fine, but not be able to use tags or chapters in the files. The player is available for Linux, Win32, MaxOSX and BeOS and can be obtained from the Videolan Homepage.
12. Gstreamer-Plugin : Ronald 'BBB' Bultje, the Gstreamer developer, has not only made a closed source implementation for the company he works for, so that they can capture video material into MKV files, but also created an opensource Gstreamer playback plugin, find it on http://www.gstreamer.net .
13. Dark-Cracker has made a DirectShow based muxing GUI for Gabest's matroskamuxer filter, its very convenient to handle and currently the easiest way to mux SSA or ASS subtitles into MKV files, until Mosu can add UTF 16 SSA compatibility to mkvmerge.
Other matroska releated news :
Matroska has now a feature list to be found here , the intention behind is to keep people informed about what we are actually working on, and what is to come next.
With this release there also a number of sample files to be released, which you can load soon from the samples page on http://matroska.free.fr/samples/index.html
Written with the help of ChristianHJW
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Voici où prendre des exemples de fichiers matroska:
http://www.matroska.org/samples/
Have fun
Message édité par BlackSun le 02-09-2004 à 21:49:36