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Karna ( KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml )  to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support

www.phoronix.com

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Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support

www.phoronix.com

Karna ( KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml )  to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • SeductiveTortoise ( SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ) 
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    I’ve been using this format for, I have no clue, 25 years? Longer? What took them so long?

    • sjohannes ( sjohannes@programming.dev ) 
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      I don’t think the reason was technical. Firefox has supported WebM (a subset of Matroska) for 11 years, and whatever code they had probably would have been enough for most Matroska files, assuming the codecs are also supported.

      However, Matroska itself was only officially standardised last October despite being in use all these years. That was probably what convinced them to add support.

    • CarrotsHaveEars ( racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml ) 
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      The AI Epic has so much higher priority, you know?

      • SeductiveTortoise ( SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ) 
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        It’s what plants CEOs crave!

    • lime! ( lime@feddit.nu ) 
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      probably licensing.

      • Mereo ( mereo@piefed.ca ) 
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        It’s open standard. No license is required.

        • lime! ( lime@feddit.nu ) 
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          fair enough, i didn’t look it up.

  • newcool1230 ( newcool1230@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Wish they would add support for HEVC

  • Carighan Maconar ( Carighan@piefed.world ) 
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    It’s been a long time since I came across matroska files in numbers, but this is pretty cool to have.

    • Shirogane Ryu ( bikooo2@r.nf ) 
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      Probably now all or almost all of the videos on my PC are in MKV format. It’s codecs of that files well it’s a story for another day

      • thingsiplay ( thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 
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        I still need MP4, because lot of programs or services don’t accept or understand MKV unfortunately. I don’t know all the differences, but I know that MKV is better for live recording, because if its stopped abruptly the file is still usable. Some little websites I upload little meme mp4 files (in place of GIF) would not accept MKV too. So I’m stuck.

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