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sir pball

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7. It's probably HD (720 or 1080) as opposed to SD

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 11:01 AM

Jun 2013

In my experience most HD movies are packaged as MKVs; it supports more efficient encoding schemes than AVI - they're both technically "containers" that hold the actual video file, but MKV is much more modern and handles codecs that result in far smaller files.

If you're bored one day, download some free conversion software and turn the MKV into an AVI - it'll be (possibly massively) larger.

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Watching a movie in MKV format..it is gorgeous....why? [View all] dixiegrrrrl May 2013 OP

MKV and AVI ChromeFoundry May 2013 #1

I'm no expert, but all the MKV files I have came from blu-ray arcane1 May 2013 #2

AVI and MKV are both just containers of video data, how the data is encoded and compressed varies Fumesucker May 2013 #3

mkv can give you alot of choices grok Jun 2013 #4

My WD Live Plus player hates mkv files displacedtexan Jun 2013 #5

Get rid of your WD Live Plus player RoccoR5955 Jun 2013 #6

It's probably HD (720 or 1080) as opposed to SD sir pball Jun 2013 #7

yep, as you said dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #8