VLC cannot play MKV files?

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Jan 26, 2016, at 2:26 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Given the disk savings it can give I really don't understand why the patch that adds HFS compression to port activation was never accepted.

For reference, that was this ticket:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36560

There were performance concerns earlier in the discussion but I'm not sure if the latest version of the patch attached there resolves them.