3mo ago

Mozilla Firefox Is Officially Getting MKV Video Support

windowsreport.com

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Glad to see it will support mkv with AV1 codec. That should be the current standard.
- WebM is just MKV with a different file extension and a mandated set of codecs and officially only supporting a subset of Matroska features. I have used MKVToolNix in the past and renamed the extension and it worked in browsers.
  
  WebM and MKV are container formats.
  AV1 is the codec, and can be contained within either WebM or MKV.
If only they could get jxl support...
- Could be coming at some point: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
  
  ??? what is this link lol
  
  Appreciate the reminder to study Dutch today! Haha
  
  Yeah, I've been keeping an eye out on this: https://github.com/libjxl/jxl-rs
- Isn't it a toggle in the about:config settings?
I want FF support for HEVC, which is way more prevalent than MKV on web...
Yes, I know their position is it's a licensing issue. I don't care.
- Mozilla Web Developer Docs
  Firefox enables HEVC on:
  Windows from Firefox 134 using either hardware (on devices that support it, where the range is the same as Edge) or software (on Windows the user must pay for and install an extension)
  macOS from Firefox 136 using either hardware or software.
  Linux from Firefox 137 using either hardware or software (via the system ffmpeg).
  Android from Firefox 137 using hardware only.
  Is this what you talking about?
  
  Huh, I didn't realize they finally snuck that in. I've been using Edge as a workaround for a long time. Thanks!
I love his phone reviews
I remember wanting that a couple years ago, and finding out then that people had been pointing it out as a much wanted feature that was missing and yet easy to implement for years before that.

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