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Anecdotally, WebOS survives on TVs.

I love my LG webos TV, overall I find the experience better than on my previous TV powered by Android..

Except that WebOS can't read mkv files and VLC is not available either :/

It is sad how app support can kill the usefulness of an US

My LG OLED65B7P can definitely play .mkv files, at least ones encoded with H264 and H265. Not sure about other codecs though.

My LGTV definitely can play .mkv files (much to my surprise). We bought it last Christmas, and it's running WebOS 4.

It's model OLED55B7A

Mine is OLED65C7P, which should be pretty much the same software wise.

So :

- maybe I am doing it wrong ? I doubt it since it should be pretty straightforward to plugin a HDD, click on video / watch.

- IIRC mkv is just a container, it might be that we are just playing different formats.

Video codec support isn't WebOS's job. Different TVs have different hardware profiles, different rendering pipelines and can support different codecs.

That being said according to this https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/f32a955 MKV should be supported.

I've got a similar TV and MKV works on mine.

Given TVs these days, it's also possible the firmware version you have is missing mkv support.

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