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Why the new Edge does not support HEVC or HEIC content from websites ?
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 Edge
My 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.Using the test site which you provided in the thread above, I was able to watch the HEVC video by using the video link from the HTML source & it was playing perfectly (opened it in another tab). However the player detects the video as WebM video.
Also for the PlayReady DRM check, I checked on http://playready.azurewebsites.net/Home/TestPlayer The videos played right. Am I going the wrong way? Can you please assist over here?
What is the direct link to that video file you think is HEVC?
that azure website is playing nothing for me, it's so buggy.
I have lots of HEVC videos in MKV formats but they are copyrighted materials.
