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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Glad to see it will support mkv with AV1 codec. That should be the current standard.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    WebM is just MKV with a different file extension and a mandated set of codecs and officially only supporting a subset of Matroska features. I have used MKVToolNix in the past and renamed the extension and it worked in browsers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    WebM and MKV are container formats.

    AV1 is the codec, and can be contained within either WebM or MKV.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    WebM and MKV are container formats.

    No, WebM is a specification that defines a subset of the Matroska container, VP9 or AV1 video codec, and Vorbis or Opus audio codecs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So its a container

    No, Matroska is a container.

    If you reference webmproject.org, at least reference the correct page: https://www.webmproject.org/about/

    WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 or VP9 video codecs and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis or Opus audio codecs.

    The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska container.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    WebM is a digital multimedia container file format promoted by the open-source WebM Project. It comprises a subset of the Matroska multimedia container format.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It comprises a subset of the Matroska multimedia container format.

    I wrote from the beginning that WebM includes a specification of a subset of Matroska it uses but that the WebM specifications also include which audio and video formats it uses. https://www.webmproject.org/about/ 100% confirms what I wrote.

    You should just accept it and move on. I'm certainly moving on because discussing with someone over WebM who doesn't even accept the contents of https://www.webmproject.org/about/ is pointless.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    If only they could get jxl support...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Initially the copy-paste went wrong and I pasted a different link that happened to be on my clipboard, but I believe I updated it it straight after - so not sure why you still saw the other one (I assume). Maybe Fedia doesn't understand edits? But wait, this is an edit - can you see this?

    Here's the link I meant to post again though: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I love his phone reviews

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I remember wanting that a couple years ago, and finding out then that people had been pointing it out as a much wanted feature that was missing and yet easy to implement for years before that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I want FF support for HEVC, which is way more prevalent than MKV on web...

    Yes, I know their position is it's a licensing issue. I don't care.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mozilla Web Developer Docs

    Firefox enables HEVC on:

    • Windows from Firefox 134 using either hardware (on devices that support it, where the range is the same as Edge) or software (on Windows the user must pay for and install an extension)
    • macOS from Firefox 136 using either hardware or software.
    • Linux from Firefox 137 using either hardware or software (via the system ffmpeg).
    • Android from Firefox 137 using hardware only.

    Is this what you talking about?

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