i know. that’s what i’m asking. which one is better, H265 with MP4 as container (since it’s the standard) or MKV as container… i do transcoding a lot but haven’t experienced using MKV as the container. that’s why i’m asking.
MKV is open, so I prefer that. My TV and Plex/Jellyfin also plays them fine. So I tend to prefer that. It’s also more powerful than MP4 if I’m not mistaken? Like it can hold subtitles and stuff? I don’t remember off the top of my head.
(Also the piracy scene tends to prefer MKV nowadays as far as I can tell. At least for larger stuff like movies and long-episode television series.)
is it better than the H265 alone without changing the container format?
H.265 isn’t a container format, it’s an encoding format. You have to have a container to hold the encoded video stream, whether it be MKV, MP4, etc.
i know. that’s what i’m asking. which one is better, H265 with MP4 as container (since it’s the standard) or MKV as container… i do transcoding a lot but haven’t experienced using MKV as the container. that’s why i’m asking.
MKV is open, so I prefer that. My TV and Plex/Jellyfin also plays them fine. So I tend to prefer that. It’s also more powerful than MP4 if I’m not mistaken? Like it can hold subtitles and stuff? I don’t remember off the top of my head.
(Also the piracy scene tends to prefer MKV nowadays as far as I can tell. At least for larger stuff like movies and long-episode television series.)