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I've been researching XBMC for the past few days and am interested in setting up an HTPC within the next month or two. One question I've had that I can't seem to find an answer to is what is the preferred file format for movies to be saved as for playback through XBMC? Any particular file type run best?
Thanks for any help!
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MKV (just a container though)
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Just did some quick research, as I wasn't aware of MKV files until now haha. Is MKV supported by Mac? I would likely run a Mac Mini based HTPC and my current laptop is a MacBook so when ripping my DVDs, would my OS be an issue?
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If you've got enough space then don't bother encoding after ripping.
If you don't have lots of space for the all the stuff then use handbrake make a smaller mkv file (with h.264 video in)
remember:
MP4/MPEG4 = container
h.264 = video format
aac/mp3 = audio format
video and audio formats go inside containers.
Flirc now has a forum: forum.flirc.tv
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well for tv recordings the TS format could also be interesting, since it is widely used on dvb-s2 set-top boxes (transport stream format, it is a container like mkv) xbmc plays it too out of the box.