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x264 VS Matroska

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x264 logo x264

x264 is a free software library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

Matroska logo Matroska

The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can...
  • x264 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-30
  • Matroska Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-21

x264 videos

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X264 Image Quality Analysis: SLOW is NOT worth it (GN Follow-Up)

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Matroska videos

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Matroska Low-Latency streaming Why Matroska is (always) Better

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to x264 and Matroska)

x264

Matroska

Video
49 49%
Video
51% 51
Audio Player
35 35%
Audio Player
65% 65
Media Player
44 44%
Media Player
56% 56
Video Converter
53 53%
Video Converter
47% 47

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Reviews

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Matroska Reviews

5 Best MKV Codecs for Windows Media Player on Windows 11/10/7
Matroska pack is a famous code pack for playing MKV files and others with Windows Media Player 11/10/9/8. It comes with two versions called Matroska Pack Lite and Matroska Pack Full. The Liter version only contains basic features to play MKV videos with Vorbis audio and subtitles. As for the recommended Matroska Pack full, it has a collection of components to play .mkv files...
Source: www.videoproc.com

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Matroska seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

x264 mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of x264 yet. Tracking of x264 recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Matroska mentions (1)

  • Programmatically alter pts_time and pts of a video?
    In your case, as you're working with other kind of containers, the answer must be in some kind of specifications. Which ones? Wikipedia... Or to be modern, chatGPT, may help you to find them. You may ask directly to chatgpt for a useful framework to use to do that or some tips. In my case it didn't help to propose a working code to do what I need (as it's a little borderline), but it helps. I think webm, if it's... Source: over 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing x264 and Matroska, you can also consider the following products

FFmpeg - Open source multimedia suite for conversion, playback, profiling, and streaming.

FLAC - A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression

Xvid - Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative...

Genialist Media Server - Genialist Media Server is an online service that you can use as an online streaming server library to organize and sort your multimedia items and access them anytime on any device.

Squared - Squared is a bite sized learning platform with insights in social media, marketing, sales, design and more.

VLC Media Player - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework.

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