oxideav-mkv

Pure-Rust Matroska (MKV) and WebM container — demuxer + muxer built on the EBML primitives from RFC 8794. Zero C dependencies.

Part of the oxideav framework but usable standalone.

Installation

[dependencies]
oxideav-core = "0.1"
oxideav-codec = "0.1"
oxideav-container = "0.1"
oxideav-mkv = "0.0"

Quick use

use oxideav_container::ContainerRegistry;

let mut containers = ContainerRegistry::new();
oxideav_mkv::register(&mut containers);

let input: Box<dyn oxideav_container::ReadSeek> = Box::new(
    std::fs::File::open("movie.mkv")?,
);
let mut dmx = containers.open_demuxer("matroska", input)?;
for s in dmx.streams() {
    println!("track {}: {}", s.index, s.params.codec_id.as_str());
}
loop {
    match dmx.next_packet() {
        Ok(p) => { /* feed p into a decoder from oxideav-codec */ }
        Err(oxideav_core::Error::Eof) => break,
        Err(e) => return Err(e.into()),
    }
}
# Ok::<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>>(())

The demuxer returns raw Packet bytes — pair it with a decoder crate (e.g. oxideav-opus, oxideav-flac, oxideav-vp9) or go through the unified oxideav aggregator to wire decoding automatically.

What's implemented

Demuxer (`demux::open`)

EBML header parse, DocType validation (matroska / webm).
Segment walk: Info, Tracks, Tags, Cues, Cluster. Known- and unknown-size Segment/Cluster both supported.
Clusters: SimpleBlock and BlockGroup -> Block, all three lacing modes (Xiph, fixed, EBML-signed-delta).
Metadata lift: title, muxer, encoder, date (Matroska DateUTC -> ISO-8601), Tags SimpleTag name/value pairs.
Duration: Segment\Info\Duration translated to microseconds.
Seek: seek_to(stream, pts) uses the Cues index. Handles Cues at either end of the Segment, and walks an unknown-size final Cluster to find Cues that sit past it.
An unknown-size Cluster is terminated cleanly when a sibling Segment- child element follows it (no more "Cues silently eaten as payload").

Muxer (`mux::open` and `mux::open_webm`)

EBML header + Segment (unknown size) for a streaming-friendly layout.
Info (1 ms TimecodeScale), Tracks, rolling ~5 s Clusters with SimpleBlock payload.
Cues element emitted in write_trailer - index entries for every video keyframe and every audio cluster-start, so the resulting file is seekable without a second pass.
Codec-specific fields: CodecPrivate normalisation for FLAC (fLaC magic prepended), Opus CodecDelay derived from the OpusHead pre-skip plus an 80 ms SeekPreRoll per the WebM spec.
WebM profile: mux::open_webm pins DocType="webm" and rejects any stream whose codec isn't VP8/VP9/AV1 video or Vorbis/Opus audio with Error::Unsupported.

Codec ID mapping (`codec_id` module)

Matroska CodecID string <-> oxideav CodecId. Both directions are implemented for roundtrip:

Audio: A_FLAC, A_OPUS, A_VORBIS, A_PCM/INT/LIT, A_PCM/INT/BIG, A_PCM/FLOAT/IEEE, A_AAC (+ MPEG4/LC / MPEG2/LC aliases), A_MPEG/L3, A_AC3, A_EAC3.
Video: V_VP8, V_VP9, V_AV1, V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC, V_FFV1, V_THEORA, plus V_MS/VFW/FOURCC with BITMAPINFOHEADER fourcc extraction (e.g. FFV1).

Unknown MKV codec IDs fall back to a pass-through mkv:<raw-id> form so the demuxer never hides an unrecognised track.

Probes + registration

Registers both "matroska" and "webm" with the container registry.
Extensions: .mkv, .mka, .mks -> matroska; .webm -> webm.
Probe scoring: DocType=webm scores 100 on probe_webm and 0 on probe_matroska (so .mkv never masquerades as webm). DocType= matroska scores 100 on probe_matroska and 0 on probe_webm. Files with an ambiguous DocType fall through to the matroska entry.

What's NOT implemented

No SeekHead on write (players scan the file head for Info/Tracks, then find Cues past the last Cluster - the existing interop test confirms ffmpeg accepts this layout).
No block lacing on write; every frame becomes a standalone SimpleBlock. The read side handles all three lacing modes.
No Attachments, Chapters, ChapterDisplay beyond skipping them.
CRC-32 elements are parsed (skipped) but not validated.
Subtitle tracks pass through as opaque packets with MediaType::Data.

License

MIT - see LICENSE.

oxideav-mkv 0.0.5