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Webm supports multiple audio and subtitle tracks inside its RIFF container structure, why the hell arent browsers supporting it???
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this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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Support for this feature would lessen the need for such players though, and anything that lessens the amount of JavaScript in the world is an objective moral good.
Fair, although AFAIK we'd also need native hls support (outside safari) since it's quite commonly used as well. Although, that info might be outdated
honestly, if it wasn't so piss easy to write, i wouldn't use it at all