MKV can also contain subtitles and menus, but the complete replacement for DVD menus while using MP4 or HEVC encoding instead of MP2/TS files never materialized. An MKV can have an H.264 (MP4) stream, or an H.265 (HEVC) stream or many other encodings, as long as you have the codecs. MKV has chapters, like MP4 files, but not like AVI. MKV is not an encoding, but is just a container, much like AVI format files can contain different stream encodings, for both audio and video. The problem is that MP4 is locked to the H.264 encoding, much like DVDs are locked to TS format files and MP2 encoding, and HEVC are locked to the H.265 encoding. HEVC and MP4 are confusing because they are informally used to refer to both the encoding and the file format. MKV has some features that the MP4 format doesn’t have. MKV is a media file format, like MP4, AVI, and TS are file formats. Like TS is the container and MP2 is the encoding DVDs and HDTV use. My iPhone serves as the remote control, using the Plex app for iPhone.
I use it to organize, manage and deliver my movie library to any computer/iPhone on my network, from a database that includes movies stored on multiple drives and computers. HEVC uses H.265, and is a specific container and content encoding format, like MP4 is a specific container and uses H.264, another encoding format. mkv files, and it does so much more than just play videos.
The 8TB backup drive just had large backup files and it just takes forever to move disk blocks around since they have to go over the USB connection too.
It took a day and a half to defrag my media drive, which is a 4TB internal drive that was fragmented like crazy since it records media and is used for game storage (all the updates fragment the files to heck), with one large recording having over 50,000 fragments. You probably also want to defrag your external hard drive - it will be slow - defraggler (from Piriform who makes CCleaner) took 3 days to defrag an 8TB external Seagate (SMR drive, too) with 6TB on it. a “D” drive), you might want to keep the temp folder there. If you have the space on the primary or internal drive (e.g.
It is tuned for archive media storage where you write a few times and read a bunch. 6TB or bigger), it very likely is using SMR technology (how they write the magnetic fields on the disk) and this is very, very slow for writes and decent for reads. NOTE: This command uses the default conversion settings of ffmpeg.
Writing library : x264 - core 56 svn-667CĮncoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3696 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.1:15.I would also add that the external drive access is far slower than your primary or internal drives.Īlso, if your external drive is a large capacity drive (e.g. This code would find every file with the extension.
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1 Writing application : mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on 23:40:55 What are the running time, frame rate, and frame size of your videos? this is what i got from mediainfo