<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite">Doesn't MKV have the same stream rate prediction problems as TS?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>No, because it (unlike MP4, FYI) stores timestamps along with each frame.</div><div><br></div><div>But in any case - as I'll explain in my next email - the "stream rate prediction" issue turns out to be a 'red herring'.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">MP4 and Matroska will also be a step backwards in terms of trick play support, wouldn't they?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I don't know about the MP4 format, but seeking within a Matroska file is trivial, and our server already supports it. Fast-forward and reverse play might also be possible to implement when streaming from Matroska files (perhaps only for some codecs), but we don't currently implement that.<br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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