Feedback mkv

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

This is such an autistic discussion and I love it.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

The MKV container is objectively better than MP4 because it handles multiple video, audio and subtitle streams, more codecs and does so with marginally less memory than MP4, however, the virtually universal compatibility of MP4 trumps that IMO.

reason #13058390202 on why mkv is based and null is a stupid nigger for not allowing it

 

[y a t s]

YT-DLP WANTS YOU TO MERGE BOTH MP4 AND WEBMS

So this is almost always a case of an mp4 container holding the video stream and a webm container holding the opus audio stream getting merged together. mp4 and webm are containers that limit their codec support for compatibility, whereas mkv is extensible and can hold just about anything. Since it's only the opus audio stream that's incompatible with the mp4 container, we only need to re-encode the audio:

ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c:v copy video.mp4

 

[Jotch]

.webm is superior

im not autistic enough to know specifics about containers and codecs

Webm is only superior if video streaming is required (Or H265 is unsupported). Otherwise H265 is superior.

For the smallest sizes with the least loss, MP4 container with H265(crf:26)/Opus(96kbps) codecs is the best.