matroska admin request : writing MKV files in VLC ?

[ChristianHJW]

Hi Folks,

your player has one of the best playback support for MKV files, the bigger part of the MKV features and possible formats are supported in it.

What i can not understand is, why has nobody ever started to implement MKV writing in VLC ? Many format conversions are not possible, because there is no container such as MKV existing, allowing so many different combinations of audio, video and subtitle codecs in a single video file.

If anybody of you should be interested to do this, please contact us at matroska-devel AT lists DOT matroska DOT org.

Regards

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org

[dionoea]

MKV support in VLC was written Steve Lhomme ... but he's been inactive for a while. AFAIK, no other VLC developer has any knowledge of Matroska. You should try contacting him (his email address is in the source file).

[ChristianHJW]

Steve Lhomme is the founder of matroska, i am one of the two co-founders and three admins (Steve, Moritz 'Mosu' Bunkus, the mkvtoolnix author, and myself as a helper person).

There is no chance that Steve himself will continue his work on VLC, as he is a member of the DivX Networks development team now and has no spare time to work on MKV implementation into VLC.

From my point of view, your project got a huge donation from him and fenris, the guy who added MKV support to VLC originally. Now its really about time to give back some of this great contribution, and to continue MKV support implementation in VLC without him.

Regards

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org

[dionoea]

Well fenrir wrote huge parts of VLC ... so yeah we can thank him As for Steve i wasn't sure about the fact that he was from the matroska team ... i guess that we'll have to wait for some volunteer. It's not like we all have spare time to spend on writing the MKV mux (might be a good Google Summer of Code project).

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Christian,

It is quite funny that you discuss of this because this was one of our subject of discussion on IRC a few days ago and today.
But, fenrir came back on the project, so hope still exists

And mkv is one of the best format. but you know that.
However, this is not really the best place to contact devs, but vlc-devel at videolan dototot org is.

But you are right. This should be on our wish list.

regards,
jb

[robUx4]

I don't work for DivX anymore, now I work for CoreCodec on CorePlayer and related stuff. Having a baby and a family to take care of doesn't leave me much time for that right now. Otherwise I'd probably write one in FFMPEG (and VLC would use it).

If you want to make it a Google Summer Of Code task, I'll be glad to monitor the student that wants to do it. This could also be proposed to the FFMPEG people as well.