Hi! To play some popular video formats in endless, we need to buy and install the necessary codecs. But in the list of video formats given in the summary on the page, I can’t find .mkv extension. Is there any way to play .mkv in endless? Or will endless make the vlc media player available for its users? If it will, that will make endless even more fun to work in.
@Vinodh MKV is a “container” format meaning that it isn’t a video format by itself, but it can contain other video formats. Do you have any information about what codecs are actually used inside the MKV files that you want to play?
The Matroska format is an open one (the same one used by WebM video files), so we include it in Endless OS already. However as @ptomato says this is only the “outer layer” and doesn’t define what is contained inside.
If the video inside is an open format such as VP8, VP9 or Theora it should already playback. If it is H.264 then you can use the codec download/upgrade that @LeandroStanger linked to for $3, but if this was the case the Video app should already tell you and link to it. If the codec inside is HEVC (aka H.265) then there is no simple way to add this (although you might be able to unpack some stuff from Debian into /var/lib/codecs depending on your Linux knowledge).
Finally: A VLC app download is being worked on and I hope it will be available within a month or so, although a similar GNOME MPV app is already available from the http://flatpak.org/apps.html link above.