Really sweet. First time I came across this new file format was a couple of months ago, when it occured over some High Definition media floating around on the net. I was at first confused, since this wasn't something I was familiar with. After some reading, I began to understand that .MKV is the beginning of a revolution.
Anyways, at first I didn't really understand the term. Well, to be precise it was the difference between 'compression format' and 'file container' that was a bit unclear to me. Now, after lots of reading, I began realizing that different compression formats (i.e. H.264/Xvid) can be fitted into a Matroska container (.MKV file), aswell as in a - traditional - .AVI file. Interesting, indeed. Unfortunately, not many (none I think, actually) portable media players on the market is supporting the Matroska format, yet. I wonder how long it'll take before it get's as world-wide standard as AVI. We'll see..
Meanwhile learning about all this, I ran over a really sweet GNU/Open Source transcoding application. For those who want's to experiment with different video/audio compression methods and suchlike, check MediaCoder out.
http://www.matroska.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
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