I’ve been using this format for, I have no clue, 25 years? Longer? What took them so long?
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.
Prioritization probably.
They are busy keeping up with engineering teams 4x their size for their browser competition… (~500 engineers building Firefox vs ~2000 building chrome)
Of a million potential features, you can only choose a subset to work on. This one was likely low impact and a low enough use case priority that it got regularly bumped under higher priority work.
This is just the way… Well… Anything with limited resources works.
Happy they finally got around for this.
The AI Epic has so much higher priority, you know?
It’s what
plantsCEOs crave!
probably licensing.
It’s open standard. No license is required.
fair enough, i didn’t look it up.
Seems important
It’s more than important. It’s vital to me. I host TV series ripped from discs on my NAS through HTTP and play them back on another machine.
For years I used an extension which sends the URL to VLC for playback via HTTP. Nowadays I got rid of the extension and just drag and drop. That doesn’t mark the link as clicked, though. It’s hard to track the progress this way.
How is that vital?
Let’s just say there were times I opened the browser after a long day of work just to enjoy an episode or two to prevent mental breakdown.
Wish they would add support for HEVC
It’s been a long time since I came across matroska files in numbers, but this is pretty cool to have.
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
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.
