Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska “MKV” content.
Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support
Submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Nightly-Matroska-MKV
gera@feddit.nu 9 hours ago
What’s this format better at compared to mp4/h264? I know mkv is used for movies, but why?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
mp4 and mkv are containers, h264 is a video codec. mkv supports a lot more video/audio codecs than mp4 and they also have extensive subtitle support which makes it perfect for movies.