pumkinut Wrote:The container should, for the large part, be irrelevant.
Sure, you can whack what you like in an mkv or an iso. Most people have dvd iso's which would be mpeg2, and mkv's containing h264*
*notice I said MOST people......
My post was just a reaction to the post by the guy who said he ripped his movies in ISO to preserve quality. I just assumed he was talking about his dvd collection. But then assumption is the mother of all f-ups!
I personally have ripped all my dvd's as ISO to preserve all the menus, special features, commentary, etc. Plus, if something happens to the original disc, I've got a ready-made back-up tool with no quality loss....
Anything above dvd quality, I tend to grab a mkv container with h264 in it because I still have a ATV1 with crystalhd in the bedroom and it can cope with 1080p content in this form.
COurse, that's all my personal preference/hardware limitations. Other people have other criteria/hardware. But for just working on rpi, mkv with h264 inside will probably be king....