On 26/08/2017 08:14, null wrote: > Anyway, thanks to the stuff on your links, I now get the general idea > that "an HTML5. video player" refers to software that resides on _the > server_, and uses HTML5 rather than flash or webM to do . . . well . . . > whatever it does that results in my browser getting a data feed that it > can display on my screen as a video.
Not quite. Javascript runs on the client (your browser). And the video stream (typically a WebM or MP4 container) is "decapsulated" on the host, and the compressed audio and video streams are decompressed and sent to the audio layer and frame buffer of the host. There is no HTML5 vs WebM. HTML5 video specifies a standard way to ... interact with a video stream (typically in a container, but elementary streams might be supported). > I've noticed that my problem playing some Youtube videos seems to > frequently arise with current affairs videos. Just now went to Youtube > and found the following, which will not play and gives the error message > discussed earlier in this thread. And with JavaScript turned off, I > don't even get the error message, just a blank, black window. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfImP6jr28g That's an MP4 container with H.264-encoded video. They don't specify the audio codec, I'll bet AAC. Regards. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
