Maybe distros are different, using Archlinux Firefox depends on ffmpeg, ffmpeg depends on libx265 [can make Chrome/Chromium unGooGled]
On 2/27/23, MC_Sequoia <mcsequ...@protonmail.com> wrote: > "Is it possible to get Firefox to display HEVC videos? Everything I have > read indicates the Mozilla developers have some religious war thing going on > with MPEG-LA and refuse to put support into Firefox for it -" > > HEVC isn't supported in Firefox because it's no a license-free codec. > > Some people might color that as a "religious war", but those people don't > understand the foundational principles and underpinning values and social > contracts of Linux, Open Source and the Mozilla Foundation. >