Matroska Alternatives
Matroska is described as 'The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file' and is an app in the Video & Movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Matroska for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD. The best alternative is FLAC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Matroska are Vorbis (Free, Open Source), Opus Interactive Audio Codec (Free, Open Source), CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack (Free) and LAVfilters (Free, Open Source).
- FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. View 8 alternatives to FLAC
- Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48. View 8 alternatives to VorbisNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
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- Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. View 7 alternatives to Opus Interactive Audio Codec
- Free • Open Source
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- The CCCP was created to replace the video playback packs provided in favor of a single reliable pack capable of decoding practically anything. View 12 alternatives to CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last update, released in October 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
No screenshots yet- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack vs Matroska
For Windows, this is the best alternative. - LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. View 9 alternatives to LAVfilters
- WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. View 7 alternatives to WavPack
- Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. View 7 alternatives to Apple Lossless
- »TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a lossless audio compressor, similar to FLAC... View 10 alternatives to TAK
- Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codec View 7 alternatives to Nero AAC Codec
- Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative development effort. All code is released under the terms of the GNU GPL license. View 11 alternatives to XvidNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
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- Linux