** Changed in: iceweasel (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647
Title:
Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
Fix Released
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in iceweasel package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
With firefox 3.5 html5 was introduced. Since 4.0 both ogg/theora and
webm/vp8 video formats are supported.
As of firefox 14, gstreamer support can be enabled with --enable-
gstreamer. If the required gstreamer codecs are installed then firefox
can play H.264 in a <video> tag.
=== Open questions ===
1. Note that the Windows build still only supports patent free codecs.
2. Note that youtube already supports webm/vp8 (altough still not for all
videos), while wikipedia supports ogg/theora. Which important sites require
other codecs?
3. Chrome supports H.264, but promised to drop support for it (
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html ).
4. How stable that code is? Which regression could introduce?
5. Given the Ubuntu commitment to free software, do we really want to enable
support for other codecs other than the officially supported free ones?
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