When do we get native support for MKV?

Question

I love Quicktime, and I mean it when I say that I am currently stuck with VLC. When can we expect MKV support for QT?
VLC is a nice player, but it just lacks the simplicity and style of QT. Too many bells and whistles, I just want to run a movie file and thats it. And I have always been a big fan of QT. Before Prerian was the answer, but they have packed their bags and gone, so that optioin won't help me either.
I wish Apple would be faster with implementing native support to new file-types as the emerge.

Answer 1

When can we expect MKV support for QT?
I suspect never from Apple or as soon as you install Perian support for the file container and the QT 7 player together with whatever codec component support that may be required for whatever particular forms of compressed data you may be using. You can, of course, request file type support be added as an enhancement in the product feedback form but likely it won't happen because then you would probably want support for all possible compression format combinations the file could possibly ever support which is the same problem AVI file containers have and Apple is, of course, trying to modernize QT in line with compression formats the support mobile (iPod, iPhone, iPasd, and TV) devices.
Before Prerian was the answer, but they have packed their bags and gone, so that optioin won't help me either.
Still works for me under Mountain Lion (although there is no telling how long this will last). The main problem is then maintaining support for file content itself. E.g., my latest problem was learning that some of my MKV files contain WVC1 (Microsoft VC1) video and coherent DTS audio which, even after I found could be handled by the Flip4Mac codecs drop too many frames for proper playback (typical data rates are 150% that of AVCHD content and are interlaced rather than progressive), display an Windows icon when not played in a BD player, and at 29.97 fps are not always correctly supported by even the latest 3D DB compatible commercial players. (I.e., I suspect these are the types of issues Apple is trying to avoid.)
I wish Apple would be faster with implementing native support to new file-types as the emerge.
Hardly a new file container since the project is already a decade old. (I.e., MKV was supposed to be a modern, completely open source, universal file container that would likely be the successor to the containers like AVI.)