Mp4

The go-to format for video these days is .mp4 containers with h.264 compression. However, when we are working on video analysis (such as in Musical Gestures Toolbox for Python), this format is not ideal. While .mp4 files are small and nice-looking, they are based on removing a lot of “unnecessary” information. There are numerous video container formats (see comparison) but many of them are proprietary. I didn’t know much about Matroska before, but it seems to be a better solution being a free and open-source, hence “future-proof”, format....