Editing Matroska (section)

== History ==

The project was announced on 6 December 2002<ref>{{cite web |title=Matroska: Older Archives |url=https://www.matroska.org/news/archives2.html |access-date=2020-05-25 |archive-date=2017-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803012039/https://www.matroska.org/news/archives2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> as a [[fork (software development)|fork]] of the [[Multimedia Container Format]] (MCF), after disagreements between MCF lead developer Lasse Kärkkäinen and soon-to-be Matroska founder Steve Lhomme about the use of the [[Extensible Binary Meta Language]] (EBML) instead of a binary format.<ref>{{cite newsgroup |title=Re: Proposed Spec Changes |author=Lhomme, Steve |date=2002-12-06 |newsgroup=gmane.comp.video.mcf.devel |url=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mcf.devel/673 |access-date=May 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011215209/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mcf.devel/673 |archive-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> This coincided with a 6-month coding break by the MCF's lead developer for his military service, during which most of the community quickly migrated to the new project.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}}

In 2010, it was announced that the [[WebM]] audio/video format would be based on a [[profile (engineering)|profile]] of the Matroska container format together with [[VP8]] video and [[Vorbis]] audio.<ref>[https://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/ ''Frequently Asked Questions''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922124446/https://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/ |date=2021-09-22 }}, the [[WebM]] project</ref>

On 31 October 2014, [[Microsoft]] confirmed that [[Windows 10]] would support [[High Efficiency Video Coding|HEVC]] and Matroska [[out of the box (feature)|out of the box]], according to a statement from Gabriel Aul, the leader of Microsoft [[operating system|Operating Systems]] Group's Data and Fundamentals Team.<ref name=TwitterHEVCNovember2014W10>{{cite news |title=HEVC also supported in-box. |author=Gabriel Aul |publisher=[[Twitter]] |url=https://twitter.com/GabeAul/status/528401061779107841 |date=October 31, 2014 |access-date=November 3, 2014 |archive-date=December 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229183259/https://twitter.com/GabeAul/status/528401061779107841 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=WCHEVCNovember2014W10>{{cite news |title=Microsoft: Windows 10 will support the HEVC video compression standard |author=John Callaham |publisher=Windows Central |url=https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-windows-10-will-support-hevc-video-standard |date=November 1, 2014 |access-date=2020-05-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229181717/https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-windows-10-will-support-hevc-video-standard |archive-date=2020-12-29}}</ref> Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9860 added platform level support for HEVC and Matroska.<ref name=SoftpediaHEVCNovember2014W10>{{cite news |title=Microsoft Confirms MKV File Support in Windows 10 |author=Bogdan Popa |publisher=[[Softpedia]]|date=November 3, 2014 |url=https://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Confirms-MKV-File-Support-in-Windows-10-463791.shtml |access-date=2020-05-25 |url-status=live |archive-date=2017-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005101533/http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Confirms-MKV-File-Support-in-Windows-10-463791.shtml}}</ref><ref name=MicrosoftHEVCNovember2014W10>{{cite news |title=New build available to the Windows Insider Program |author=Gabe Aul |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |url=http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/11/12/new-build-available-to-the-windows-insider-program/ |date=November 12, 2014 |access-date=November 15, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303084809/http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/11/12/new-build-available-to-the-windows-insider-program/ |archive-date=March 3, 2015}}</ref>