Playback of .mkv videos in Firefox (Linux)

Seafile Server
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Hi,

Mozilla recently added the possibility to play .mkv video files directly in Firefox: Mozilla Firefox Officially Gets MKV Video Playback Support

I’m using Firefox v146 on Linux right now and when I open an .mkv video file in Firefox, it is successfully played by Firefox. So that confirms that my Firefox installation can indeed play .mkv video files.

However, when I click on the name of an .mkv file in my Seafile Server webpage, I get the message saying that viewing this file is not possible online, with a button to download the file instead.

My Seafile Server is running on v11.0.13. Am I getting this message because I didn’t update the server to the v13? Or does the issue come from something else?

Thanks & kind regards.

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This is because the video.js we used does not support .mkv yet. We will take a look at it.

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After investigation, mkv is not widely supported yet. We don’t have a plan to add support for it yet.

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Do you mean that MKV should be supported on all the main browsers and all the main operating systems before Seafile can support it?

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Yes. Otherwise there will be browser detection code needed, we don’t want to add such code.

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