Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:21:58 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Just last night I remembered why I dislike .mkv format

I tried fast forwarding though one (on the HDD, via the dvd player) and
it could only go up to 3x speed (3 arrows), vs the 6 arrows an mp4 will
go at, and it seems like a logarithmic progression in the speeds.

So to get an hour plus to a specific spot in the movie if it's and mp4
takes 2-3 mins maybe but mkv takes 20 or more.

To be fair, that's probably a limitation of the DVD's software and not
the format itself. You can scan through MKV as fast as any other
format (VLC let's me FFWD up to 64x in normal increments, then jumps
to 72x, 77,5x and beyond in weird little jumps. Possibly a limitation
of the network bandwidth?)