How to play .mkv type file video using HTML5 video tag in chorme

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Audio not working in case of .mkv file type

What I have tried:

<video src="test.mkv" type='video/x-matroska; codecs="theora, vorbis"' </video>

or

<video src="test.mkv" type="video/x-matroska;" </video>

Posted 26-Apr-19 3:08am

Pankaj18

Updated 23-Sep-19 20:41pm

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2019-04-26T04:19:00

Solution 1

It's because of the audio codec that was used. Chrome probably doesn't support it (without help from an extension?). No, I don't know how to fix it other than to find out what audio codec it's using and eiethr change it, or get a browser extension that will support it.

Posted 26-Apr-19 4:19am

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Harsh.Shah.ifour · Answer 2 · 2019-09-23T20:41:00

Solution 3

Hi
This is because Google chrome is not supported .mkv file extension.

Posted 23-Sep-19 20:41pm

Harsh.Shah.ifour

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Richard Deeming 25-Sep-19 15:22pm

As already mentioned in solution 1, back in April.