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 pretty special.
Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support
jqubed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Not that firefox actually supports any of those advanced sub formats lol (I’d be surprised if chrome did either though tbh)
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Absolutely true. But it’s relatively easy, I assume, given that webm is just a subset of mkv anyway, and why not!
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Could firefox directly receive from multicast, an mkv video stream with low latency ? (like sub 100ms ?)
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think this is a bit more involved than extended file format support.