Every so often email threads from mailing lists (specifically the mplayer users list) end up in my spam box. I should check to see if it is just a single sender causing it and fix it...
3) This is not a good thing if your goal is to play back the content on any system but the one it was made on. Ever gone internet hunting for that one weird codec that you used for a few months a couple years ago? No? Me neither because I'm not dumb enough to think that 'can jam anything into it' is a good thing in a media format.
Just because you can put anything in it doesn't mean that you should. Nor does it mean that you should go with anything that isn't standard. Using it over the mp4 container, does future proof it somewhat, as (the way I see it) h264 is likely to get depreciated before the matroska container (assuming adding support doesn't create issues, I'm not that savvy in regards to matroska specifically). It also allows you to provide video in using multiple formats without having to worry about using a different container for each one. Just plug in a different video stream and away you go. I'm not sure the OP will need too, but this could be handy depending on what they are doing with their video down the track.
There is a very, very slight quality loss (only noticeable looking at the bottom left corner of the rose), for both the WebP and optimised PNG format, but it is not at all bad.
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Every so often email threads from mailing lists (specifically the mplayer users list) end up in my spam box. I should check to see if it is just a single sender causing it and fix it...
3) This is not a good thing if your goal is to play back the content on any system but the one it was made on. Ever gone internet hunting for that one weird codec that you used for a few months a couple years ago? No? Me neither because I'm not dumb enough to think that 'can jam anything into it' is a good thing in a media format.
Just because you can put anything in it doesn't mean that you should. Nor does it mean that you should go with anything that isn't standard. Using it over the mp4 container, does future proof it somewhat, as (the way I see it) h264 is likely to get depreciated before the matroska container (assuming adding support doesn't create issues, I'm not that savvy in regards to matroska specifically). It also allows you to provide video in using multiple formats without having to worry about using a different container for each one. Just plug in a different video stream and away you go. I'm not sure the OP will need too, but this could be handy depending on what they are doing with their video down the track.
There is a very, very slight quality loss (only noticeable looking at the bottom left corner of the rose), for both the WebP and optimised PNG format, but it is not at all bad.