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Prashant Hanamghar
Prashant Hanamghar

Reputation: 81

Is there any way to play mkv video on all browsers without any plugin installed on client side?

I am using simple HTML5 <video> tag. Now chrome is playing .mkv videos but in mozilla firefox it is not supported. So, is there something which will solve my all problems related to playing video on web page?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6088

Answers (2)

Markus Mueller
Markus Mueller

Reputation: 31

As far as I know, the easiest solution is to transcode the video and put it in an MP4 container. Matroska has never been a container with a broad audience. If the audio and video streams are already compatible the transcoding should be pretty fast too. e.g. ffmpeg is able to do this:

$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -codec copy output.mp4

Upvotes: 3

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944149

No. If a browser doesn't support a container format or codec, then it doesn't support it and you need something installed to add support for it.

Consider offering your videos in multiple formats, or at least one with wider support.

Upvotes: 2

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