Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support
Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support
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Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support
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Me to handbrake for two decades: stop trying to make MKV happen! It's not going to happen!
Guess I owe them an apology
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I didn’t know that was something that’s been available in Chrome. Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.
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It's highly popular in the anime scene for its ability to contain original audio and dubs and a few subtitle tracks, including custom fonts for some of the subtitle formats that are feeling particularly special.
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Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.
WebM shows that Matroska is excellent for streaming. It's the same container, WebM just mandates a set of codecs (just as MP4 as an offshoot of MOV can theoretically hold non-MPEG codecs but nobody supports this in the real world). With formal Matroska support, something like combining a HEVC video track with an Opus audio would be possible.
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Hold up can someone please tell me what benefits MKV has over let's say MP4 ?
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It supports more codecs and I believe can store more tracks compared to MP4. Whenever I download a high quality movie or tv show, especially if it has multiple audio tracks and subtitles to choose from, it is always packaged in .mkv
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It supports more complicated subtitles and menuing, more codec support (like a LOT more) lossless support, mode audio formats.
It's like they took MP4 and added in all the stuff that you needed to replicate a BluRay, then added in lossless audio.
If you just want a movie with basic subtitles and audio, MP4 is fine. If you want to replicate newer stuff, MKV supports it.
The real hot part of this is if you have a collection of high-quality video/audio and you're streaming it to firefox, you'll natively be able to do so without transcoding.
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After all this time.
I was there before mp4 was a thing.
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Librewolf when
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After Firefox, by definition.
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I guess that's cool but I don't think I've ever seen a website that actually hosted MKVs. What are some websites that have MKVs?
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Being able to direct stream content from jellyfin without needing to repackage on the fly to another container would be nice.
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Ey, neat
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Meh, too little too late
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i am still gonna use MOV in obs if it's not a tower PC
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When Ladybird is in Alpha I’ll be moving to that
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Because of MKV ?
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No
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Well, it took them long enough. The container has been around for over 20 years now.
WebM is just Mastroska with most features disabled that are not relevant to streaming and a mandated set of codecs, so basic Mastroska support would have been possible years ago, simply by accepting the Matroska MIME types.