Hi,

i am Christian and one of the administrators of the matroska opensource container project. The matroska container will allow for a huge variety of different video and audio compression formats to be stored in it, and we also have specified our own menue system ( based on the DVD menue system ).

We also can convert any DVD into a single MKV file already, keeping all of the content and menues, and using any supported compression formats for audio and video. Only problem we have right now is to add good playback support, we more or less gave up on DirectShow for this and are in the process to extend VLC http://www.videolan.org for this purpose.

I would like to know

- what opensource libs was used for RatDVD
- when code based on these libs will be going to be released
- if you will publish any details of your container format
- how you plan to circumvent DirectShow's limitation with respect to proper menue support

Thanks and best regards from Germany

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org