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So I accidentally opened an mkv video file with Chrome, and to my surprise it played it using the native player:
<video src="video.mkv"></video>
It was playing perfectly. HTML5 video supports matroska container?
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MP4, MOV, and AVI formats, many media players still support opening and playing MKV files, including: Microsoft Movies & TV (Windows) VideoLAN VLC media player (multiplatform) MPlayer (multiplatform)
Yes, it's possible to play videos (mkv, mp4, ogg, etc) with the modern browser without a plugin. You can do that by using "video" tag. Support matrix for the different browsers here; on the sub-feature tab are listed supported video/audio formats and their support matrix across the browsers.
MKV format/codec is not supported. MKV is just a video container, which can be encoded with a wide range of codecs, like HEVC, H. 264, MPEG-4, VP9, DTS audio etc. While Samsung TV has poor compatibility with some of the codecs, such as Dolby True Audio and DTS Audio, which will make MKV not playing on Samsung TV.
Both MKV and MP4 can be encoded using the HEVC video codec supporting UHD resolution. However, one prime difference between MKV and MP4 is that MKV supports FLAC, whereas MP4 doesn't. This makes MKV a much better format for lossless digital audio compression.
HTML5 doesn't support any video formats, or rather HTML5 doesn't specify what formats browsers should support. It's up to the browsers to decide which formats they choose to support. Apparently Chrome plays .mkv, but I wouldn't be surprised if other browsers didn't play the same file.
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