In <news:bludnypzaohnuopinz2dnuu7-imdn...@mozilla.org>,
Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> >> http://www.rockstargames.com/videos/video/11267 and
> >> http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=160425
> >>
> >> Is anyone else getting this error [Subject: "We've detected that
> >> your device or browser does not support this HTML5 format video.
> >> Please watch on the most recent generation device and browser."]
> >> in their SeaMonkey web browsers? Or is it just my very old
> >> computer and OS? :/
> >
> > My guess is that it's your old OS.  I don't know about SeaMonkey, so
> > my guess is based on the (possibly wrong) assumption that SM deals
> > with web video the same way Fx does.
> >
> > For a while now Windows 7+ Firefox has been able to play mp4s
> > without any helper apps, leveraging Windows Media Foundation.  But
> > Windows XP does not have Windows Media Foundation.  So I think you
> > need a plugin for those mp4s.  If you use a plugin or any other
> > handler, make sure media.windows-media-foundation.enabled is set to
> > 'false'.
> 
> Shouldn't SM be able to play HTML5 videos natively without any addons?

I guess that depends on what "should" means.  But unless I've missed
something in this thread, no XP users are reporting that it can play
mpeg4 videos without a plugin.
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