https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469137
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--- Comment #1 from Firlaev-Hans <firlaevhans.fi...@protonmail.com> ---
Are you confusing mkv with something else? It is NOT some abandoned "dinosaur"
format from the 90s, it came out in 2002 more than a year AFTER mp4 and it had
its latest release last october, whereas mp4 hasn't had a new release in 3
years.
Mkv ("Matroska") is actually a very popular, very flexible container format
that supports almost any codec imaginable (including H264 and H265 video and
mp3 or AAC audio). It is a completely free and open standard (unlike mp4) and
doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft or proprietary formats.
It also holds a significant advantage over mp4 for recording scenarios like
this, which is that it can recover better from sudden interruptions during
recording (like crashes or power outages) as unlike mp4 it doesn't result in
broken files. It is the preferred container format in OBS Studio for a reason.
I also don't understand your complaint about editing and modifying mkv files.
FFMPEG and handbrake can work with them just fine, and so can most video
editors. I don't know which software you usually use to manipulate your MP4
files of course.
Now, the actual codecs used by kamoso are a different story. It records theora
video and vorbis audio, the latter is okay but theora *is* a dinosaur codec and
not very good. But again, that has nothing to do with mkv. Kamoso could easily
switch to H264 / H265 video and mp3 (or rather AAC which is much more popular
for videos) audio, while keeping the Matroska container format.
Although I'm not sure how that would work with the licensing of these codecs,
so it might be better to switch to VP8/VP9 video and Opus audio instead which
are good modern free formats and also widely supported (YouTube uses them).
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