2025-02-13, 08:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-02-13, 08:03 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 2 times in total.)
This entirely a client issue.
If you want to direct play MKV containers, you need to be using Jellyfin Media Player or MPV Shim as both of these clients use MPV which does support MKV.
If you're talking about a browser like Chrome, it can only direct play some video codecs (like HEVC) as long as it's packaged in a MP4 stream container.
We have no control over that. If you want Chrome for example to support MKVs for all things, you need to talk to Google.
Or the same for whatever client you're using. They need to implement support for MKVs.
All the Jellyfin server does is send a stream or a transcoded/remuxed stream if the original isn't supported.
If you want to direct play MKV containers, you need to be using Jellyfin Media Player or MPV Shim as both of these clients use MPV which does support MKV.
If you're talking about a browser like Chrome, it can only direct play some video codecs (like HEVC) as long as it's packaged in a MP4 stream container.
We have no control over that. If you want Chrome for example to support MKVs for all things, you need to talk to Google.
Or the same for whatever client you're using. They need to implement support for MKVs.
All the Jellyfin server does is send a stream or a transcoded/remuxed stream if the original isn't supported.