Re: FFV1/MKV IETF Session followup
Steve Lhomme <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Ralph Giles <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 24/07/15 06:36 AM, Sebastian G. <bastik> wrote: > >> How does one play a Matroska file with Firefox? It supports WebM >> which is a subset of Matroska, but I am unable to play a Matroska >> file that contains an h.264 encoded video, which is supported by >> Firefox as well. > > Firefox only supports the vp8, vp9, vorbis, and opus codecs in the > WebM variant of Matroska. To play h.264 you have to use the mp4 containe > r. > > In Nightly and Developer Edition builds you can remux Matroska to mp4 > in javascript and play it through the MediaSource Extensions API. Going through javascript to get around some restrictions added in the Firefox code ? That sounds like a very bad solution. > Hopefully that will be available in release builds in a few months. > This API is available in Chrome, Safari, and Microsoft Edge as well. MS Edge supports Matroska files out of the box via Media Foundation. No need for javascript. > As you say, WebM is a subset of Matroska. There's value in having a > separately-labelled container with only free-to-implement codecs. I'd > much rather people put Opus alongside h.264 in mp4 than in WebM. Why ? > -r > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVsrc7AAoJEEcAD3uxRB3vK6sIAJH1wnhmLwqDPbMjCQOeDMdw > +UKqi55RZ+ImAoukL0IhOn+WQitseHSM8VZIPjv7V6UaglgGYtT5e+RKlXgK8SWl > cTdK8BceV9ayVtGfFeUJAsG2poqGAIyrQ7lwA4Gqbol75m7ZuiWHonglWQar8d3c > LayMoLJRf8pRyKqqtoHKkM4nTye8Ho0y16iOzWKsAnZDDmSdUovTjQnbnBONm+FF > XZvWoVNa3HwvxlPtGg7uN6GIN6BGjAE9OJ4jVkagTMj26YPoTS0q6/dEwTgBa8m/ > 8Enf9oFKq89BCW2aYQ7xBwqRbua78/5zP49jGP0tkVM/rwC8z3aIrtd2aGhxCFo= > =mu3u > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Matroska-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.matroska.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/matroska-devel > Read Matroska-Devel on GMane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel -- Steve Lhomme Matroska association Chairman _______________________________________________ Matroska-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.matroska.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/matroska-devel Read Matroska-Devel on GMane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel