Both methods result in the VLC player box being made but nothing ever getting played and the developer console doesn't show any errors. Trim, Watermark, Append & Convert WMV, AVI, FLV, MKV, MP4, QT Video files. Here is what I have tried so far using the VLC plugin: īut the codebase doesn't seem to exist anymore and adding that classid to the code above has no effect on the playing of the file. If it's any form of digital multimedia, VLC can very likely play it with little problem.
You'd either need to install an extension/add-on that properly reads the MKV format or choose another video player. You may first have to click the folder that the MKV video is in (e.g., Desktop) on the left side of the window. MKV is a format that Chrome natively cannot read. I then tried to use the VLC web plugin (as I know VLC can play the files correctly) but have not yet gotten it to play any file, there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency in the examples for using this method. Clicking it opens a window in which you can select a file to open in VLC Media Player. I have tried multiple methods including native HTML5, which plays back the video but no audio and from what I've read AC3 is a proprietary codec so it is not included in the supported codecs.
But even then no browser supports the AC3 audio codec commonly used in MKV, so you might get no audio.
Youd probably have to give the type as video/webm for that to work at all. I am trying to make a MKV video with a MPEG4 video codec and AC3 audio codec available to be played online using Mozilla or Chrome. The slightly longer answer is you can sometimes get some MKVs to play in browsers that support webm, because webm is a subset of MKV.