[FFmpeg-user] -f mkv?

[Rodney Baker]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:18:08 Tom Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Rodney Baker <rodney.baker at iinet.net.au> 
wrote:
> > Right. Matroska is the container format and mkv is the extension, not the
> > video format. Matroska containers can contain video in a number of
> > different formats e.g. mpeg4, h264, avi etc. The -f switch specifies the
> > video stream format, not the container format. The container format is
> > determined automatically from the file extension.
> > 
> > At least I think that's how it works... ;-)
> 
> No, the -f flag controls the output container format. If omitted, the
> output container format is determined from the output file extension.
> 
> The video stream doesn't have a format.
> 

Thanks for the correction, Tom. :-)

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