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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.

WebM shows that Matroska is excellent for streaming. It's the same container, WebM just mandates a set of codecs (just as MP4 as an offshoot of MOV can theoretically hold non-MPEG codecs but nobody supports this in the real world). With formal Matroska support, something like combining a HEVC video track with an Opus audio would be possible.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Could firefox directly receive from multicast, an mkv video stream with low latency ? (like sub 100ms ?)

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I think this is a bit more involved than extended file format support.