Seamless branching with MKV
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:33 pm
Hi.
MKV supports seamless branching through its "ordered chapters" feature, which allows linking to segments from external files. It can also be accomplished with a single file which has multiple editions.
More info is here: http://www.mod16.org/hurfdurf/?p=8
I've successfully created seamless branching MKV-files of Blade Runner International theatrical, US theatrical and Director's cut, using eac3to and mkvmerge. One of the mkv-files contain the entire US theatrical cut, and is about 21GB. The other two contains just the parts that are unique to that version of the movie, and all other segments are read from the US theatrical cut. These files are about 500MB each. This actually works very well. I'm using MPC to play the files, and I'm unable to spot where the player changes from file A to file B. Unfortunately, player support is not that good, but it definately works with MPC.
Anyway - it would be great it MakeMKV could add an option to create branching MKV-files instead of creating multiple files containing the entire movie.
MKV supports seamless branching through its "ordered chapters" feature, which allows linking to segments from external files. It can also be accomplished with a single file which has multiple editions.
More info is here: http://www.mod16.org/hurfdurf/?p=8
I've successfully created seamless branching MKV-files of Blade Runner International theatrical, US theatrical and Director's cut, using eac3to and mkvmerge. One of the mkv-files contain the entire US theatrical cut, and is about 21GB. The other two contains just the parts that are unique to that version of the movie, and all other segments are read from the US theatrical cut. These files are about 500MB each. This actually works very well. I'm using MPC to play the files, and I'm unable to spot where the player changes from file A to file B. Unfortunately, player support is not that good, but it definately works with MPC.
Anyway - it would be great it MakeMKV could add an option to create branching MKV-files instead of creating multiple files containing the entire movie.