.mkv play

[ghost]

Can't seem to play/stream .mkv files. Would be HUGE help! Thanks!

[ghost]

Thanks in advance!!!

[marcus-sa]

Browser or desktop?
The <video> tag doesn't support .mkv playback, as for desktop you'd have to use an external player as VLC.

[ghost]

no no no, browser. Imagine the possibilities. Can I contact you in private?

[kocoten1992]

@AceVance , mkv is the container, the codec in container are factor video can play it or not (like h.264, vp9...).

But in my exp, sometimes even codec are vp9 (supported by firefox/chrome) and with mkv container, firefox won't play it, chrome however can. It best to stick with container and codec surely browser supported (mp4 / webm...)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats

[ghost]

The trick is to stream mkv from a torrent file through web app, without anything downloaded to an actual computer, except the cache. Which is possible. Just need to figure out the right way of getting mkv presented to the player in a way where it will understand the video/audio formats. That's the ultimate goal.

[ghost]

and again, thank you very much Kocoten1992 and marcus-sa for all the input. Can't thank you enough for engaging in this.

[kocoten1992]

It too confused, could you elaborate in much detail ?

[Daniel-Abrecht]

Isn't this a duplicate of #405, #796 and jhiesey/videostream#29 again?

[DiegoRBaquero]

Duplicate.

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