Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use AAC files because its universal - every anki client can play them, and they produce smaller audio files than mp3 with better quality. This itself is fine, but I want to go smaller. I want to use xHE-AAC. Which I believe is also j…

I logged it here: Update to latest mpv? · Issue #4521 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

Just wondering: Why do we need mpv in the first place? Can’t the webengine handle the audio/video playback as it does in the web browsers like Chrome? I don’t use cards with audio/video, though.

The web engine supports very few formats out of the box: [image] Use HTML5 media tags rather than external player Suggestions I don’t know if it has been up for discussion before (and discarded) but a suggestion is to use HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags instead …

Anki’s architecture is pretty good. They’ve decoupled their backend and their frontend very well. Anki’s rslib is awesome. The fact its Rust made generating the docs really easy so I could see the APIs I needed. I made a lil prototype Rust Tauri frontend for Anki. Just the reviewing part was all I…

[image] lrukqite: BUT I wanted xHE-AAC support and boy linux doesn’t make it easy I’m guessing this is because xHE-AAC requires a paid license covering the patented parts of encoders and decoders.

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abdo January 26, 2026, 11:56am 4

The web engine supports very few formats out of the box:

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