Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Alright, let's say for the sake of argument that I'm out of touch with the encoding community. (True more or less anyway)

You keep mentioning compatability issues without going into detail. Care to enlighten me on a few specific issues?
Playing MKVs back in standalone players and converting them to DVD-Video files was a huge hassle last time I checked. As for playable errors, a Google search reveals half as many results for MKV playback problems as it does for AVI - despite the fact that AVI predates MKV by ten years. This forum and every other one like it was plagued with tech support requests when groups began the switchover to MKV.