How to playback MKV video in web browser

Question

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  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  The code for that was as follows   lt video width  1024  height  768  controls autoplay gt        lt source src  quot path to src quot  type  video x-matroska  gt   lt  video gt   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  Here is what I have tried so far using the VLC plugin   lt embed type  quot application x-vlc-plugin quot  version  quot VideoLAN VLCPlugin 2 quot   width  quot 1024 quot  height  quot 768 quot  id  quot vlc quot  autoplay  quot yes quot  target  quot path to file quot  gt  lt  embed gt   The VLC page here says to add this   lt object classid  quot clsid 9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921 quot   codebase  quot http   download videolan org pub videolan vlc last win32 axvlc cab quot  gt   But the codebase doesn t seem to exist anymore and adding that classid to the code above has no affect on the playing of the file  Both methods result in the VLC player box being made but nothing ever getting played and the developer console doesn t show any errors  So my question is does anyone know a workaround to get AC3 audio to play in the native HTML5 player or what the correct syntax is for the VLC web plugin  Or does anyone have a different player altogether they would recommend  Any and all help appreciated

User · Answer

HTML5 and the VLC web plugin were a no go for me but I was able to get this work using the following setup:

DivX Web Player (NPAPI browsers only)

AC3 Audio Decoder

And here is the HTML:

<embed id="divxplayer" type="video/divx" width="1024" height="768" 
src ="path_to_file" autoPlay=\"true\" 
pluginspage=\"http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/\"></embed>

The DivX player seems to allow for a much wider array of video and audio options than the native HTML5, so far I am very impressed by it.

User · Answer

lt video controls width 800 autoplay gt       lt source src  file path here  gt   lt  video gt    This will display the video   mkv  using Google Chrome browser only

User · Answer

You can use this following code  work just on chrome browser     x000D   x000D   function failed e    x000D        video playback failed - show a message saying why x000D     switch  e target error code    x000D       case e target error MEDIA ERR ABORTED  x000D         alert  You aborted the video playback     x000D         break  x000D       case e target error MEDIA ERR NETWORK  x000D         alert  A network error caused the video download to fail part-way     x000D         break  x000D       case e target error MEDIA ERR DECODE  x000D         alert  The video playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the video used features your browser did not support     x000D         break  x000D       case e target error MEDIA ERR SRC NOT SUPPORTED  x000D         alert  The video could not be loaded  either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported     x000D         break  x000D       default  x000D         alert  An unknown error occurred     x000D         break  x000D       x000D     x000D    lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Transitional  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-transitional dtd  gt  x000D   lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml  xml lang  en  lang  en  gt  x000D   x000D   lt head gt  x000D    lt meta http-equiv  content-type  content  text html  charset iso-8859-1    gt  x000D    lt meta name  author  content  Amin Developer     gt  x000D   x000D    lt title gt Untitled 1 lt  title gt  x000D   lt  head gt  x000D   lt body gt  x000D   x000D   lt p gt  lt video src  http   jell yfish us media Jellyfish-3-Mbps mkv  type  video x-matroska  codecs  theora  vorbis   autoplay controls onerror  failed event    gt  lt  video gt  lt  p gt  x000D   lt p gt  lt a href  YOU mkv FILE LINK GOES HERE TO DOWNLOAD  gt Download the video file lt  a gt   lt  p gt  x000D   x000D   lt  body gt  x000D   lt  html gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

HTML5 does not support  mkv   Matroska files but you can use this code      lt video gt       lt source src  video mkv  type  video mp4  gt   lt  video gt    But it depends on the browser as to whether it will play or not   This method is known to work with Chrome

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To use video extensions that are MKV  You should use video  not source For example    x000D   x000D     lt  -- mkv -- gt     lt video width  320  height  240  controls src  assets animation mkv  gt  lt  video gt   lt  -- mp4 -- gt     lt video width  320  height  240  controls gt       lt source src  assets animation mp4  type  video mp4    gt     lt  video gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   My answer may be incomprehensible to you  so if you do not understand  click on this

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