Firefox Introducing Matroska / Mkv Playback Support
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Firefox is introducing MKV playback support using ffmpeg, expanding its video playback capabilities.
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They use ffmpeg then they could read nearly anything, don't they?
We have the <video> & <audio> html elements. That said, only "stream-able" video and audio formats do work there.