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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>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?)

Except it's not network, it's a usb connection directly to the dvd
player (not a dvd drive connected to a computer, a regular
connects-to-the-TV player,) and it can fast forward at much higher
speeds for other formats, it's only mkv that's slow as hell - from the
exact same source.

Xocyll
-- 
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