[mythtv-users] Should I prefer mp4 or mkv in Handbrake output?

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 09/20/2014 07:42 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:23:30 -0400
>     > From: Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com>
>
>     > It doesn't sound like this would be a concern for you, but my Roku box and
>     > mobile devices can't play HD MKVs, only MP4s.
>
> Hmm.  Nope, not a current concern, and I'm assuming I can use
> mkvtoolnix to extract just the MP4 and put it into an MP4 container
> if I really had to.  (It sounds like MKV is a superset of MP4's
> capabilities, so if I'm going to stuff everything into something,
> it seems like MKV is the winner, followed by extraction (without
> retranscoding) into an MP4 container if I run into something that
> chokes.  If that's not right, I assume someone will speak up. :)
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I don't think mkvtoolnix will create an MP4 container. I use avconv to
do this. I had to patch avconv to get around a bug/feature  in avconv
and avconv does not do the subtitles, but it does create an MP4 file
that is playable on a DVD player that does not support mkv.

Peter