[Matroska-general] MKV vs MP4

[Emanuele Fumagalli]

> IIRC MP4 sucks for streaming because you need some information that are 
> usually at the end of the file. Matroska doesn't need any information that 
> are usually at the end of the file (like seek info).

Hi Steve, thanks for your info.
Actually there's a way to have all the header at the beginning in MP4, what 
I'm evaluating is the overhead needed from the decoder to strart playing a 
video.
I made a quick test and it seems that using MKV I can save 50% of the header 
size, but I son't know why.
Is there maybe some option in Matroska to compress the header even more?

thanks for any help

bye