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Why the new Edge does not support HEVC or HEIC content from websites ?
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 Edge
Thank 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!HotCakeX Thanks for the reply. To clarify: we would need to know specifically what kind of hardware you're using, since playing videos off of websites usually requires hardware that supports PlayReady (and if you also haven't disabled the edge://flags/#edge-playready-drm-win10 flag).
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeMy CPU is I7 7700K, installed all the drivers, using IGPU that is built into the CPU and graphic drivers for it installed as well.
the flag was set to default but now I enabled it manually just to be sure.
I'm using latest Edge canary on latest Windows 10 insider ring.
when I try to play a HEVC MKV file on Edge, it starts downloading the file instead of playing it.
