Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support

jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not that firefox actually supports any of those advanced sub formats lol (I’d be surprised if chrome did either though tbh)

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    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Absolutely true. But it’s relatively easy, I assume, given that webm is just a subset of mkv anyway, and why not!

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Could firefox directly receive from multicast, an mkv video stream with low latency ? (like sub 100ms ?)

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think this is a bit more involved than extended file format support.

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