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Why the new Edge does not support HEVC or HEIC content from websites ?
MELERIX Thanks for reaching out! To confirm, are HEVC and/or HEIC supported on other Chromium browsers? (And I'm not asking as a way to imply that Microsoft Edge couldn't/wouldn't, but to determine what's within the realm of possibilities.)
Can you also tell us more about your use case for this and how it would improve your experience with the browser?
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Deleted Do you know the latest about HEVC support? I have read elsewhere people getting it to work with playReady experimental flags, but I've had no such luck. Legacy Edge can play HEVC playready streams on my Windows 10 PC, but even the latest 86.0.615.3 is not being detected as supporting h265/hevc...
Deleted HEVC and HEIF needs to be supported in the new Edge.
The legacy Edge used to support it which gave it an edge over Chrome. Only Edge & Safari used to support it. Having HEVC & HEIF support means we can have the advantages of consuming more rich media content being served by the codecs.
And when the Legacy Edge had support for this, the new Edge definitely needs to have support for these codecs.
I spoke with one of our devs, and they wanted to know what devices y'all have tried this on? Theoretically, you may actually already be able to see support for HEVC in Microsft Edge if your machine supports PlayReady content.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeThank you very much,
I mainly use Windows 10.
I want to be able to play HEVC/H.265 video files that are in MKV video container (most popular video container these days). video files I want to watch are hosted on web servers and also in web-based video players.
could you ask them if it's possible? this would mean a lot to me and makes my life a lot easier for real!
- Chromium doesn't support it, but Webkit does which was once the source code for Chromium.
Safari and Apple products support HEVC/H.265 codecs. when watching movies, I have to use 3rd party apps because Edge doesn't support them.
Microsoft should bring support for them to Edge as well. let the rest of the Chromium browsers figure it out on their own, Microsoft's user base is not even comparable to theirs. - sorry but I don't use other Chromium browsers, and about the issues everything is already explained in the comments above.
