Question / Help Where's MKV file container? (ffmpeg)

[BD1M]

Running through custom output settings to try nvenc hevc encoder. mkv is my file preference but I don't see it in container format besides matroska and timestamp. Mp4 and mov is a loaded gun and flv doesn't do audio. Unless its under a different name? Or is there more settings to tinker?

 

[koala]

you create *.mkv by choosing "matroska".

 

[BD1M]

create *.mkv by choosing "matroska".

Thank you. I was thinking that at first but wanted confirmation

 

[koala]

I don't understand why you just didn't try that out yourself. It took a couple of hours to get this reply, but if you just tried that setting and look what kind of file gets written by this, you get that within 30 seconds. Asking is good, but you don't need to ask things you can try and verify yourself so easily.

 

[BD1M]

I don't understand why you just didn't try that out yourself. It took a couple of hours to get this reply, but if you just tried that setting and look what kind of file gets written by this, you get that within 30 seconds. Asking is good, but you don't need to ask things you can try and verify yourself so easily.

I only tried by selecting them and hevc before taking the snapshot but I didn't test it out since the confusion beforehand (searching forum q&a and looking up container origin) took alot of time so I just stepped away from the keyboard to relax and breathe (read and then sleep) while posting a question. It was a dumb one in retrospect but will prolly be the last one asked relating to this, for the next buddy who's confused.

 

[Atlas Marvel]

I don't understand why you just didn't try that out yourself. It took a couple of hours to get this reply, but if you just tried that setting and look what kind of file gets written by this, you get that within 30 seconds. Asking is good, but you don't need to ask things you can try and verify yourself so easily.

You don't need to be a complete prick either but here we are. Either help or don't. Simple.

 

[DayGeckoArt]

Choosing Matroska means you can't select HEVC_NVENC. It probably worked when this thread was made but no longer. You can force it to show up by checking "Show all encoders even if potentially incompatible".

 

[koala]

There seems to be a glitch introduced in the GUI, one way or the other. Sometimes you can set matroska with hevc_nvenc without checking "show all encoders", and recordings actually are with hevc_nvenc, but if you open this configuration page after a restart of OBS, the settings are reverted to libx264. If you click enough between the checkbox and the audio+video encoder dropdown list, sometimes you are again able to select hevc_nvenc without the checkbox being checked.
Not consistent.
However, not opening a bug in github, since I'm not able to reproduce the exact click stream required to provoke this behavior.
To be on the safe side and not having your configuration accidentally reversed, you really need to make sure the checkbox is checked.