(In reply to Josh Triplett from comment #248) > (In reply to Connor Behan from comment #245) > > (In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #241) > > > Running codecs which other browsers don't support doesn't help web > > > authors. > > > Our goal is not to inspire web pages 'Best viewed in Firefox'. Quite the > > > opposite. So adding the wide range of formats gstreamer offers doesn't > > > advance the web as a platform. > > > > But these are formats that other browsers DO support. It's the main reason > > that Firefox has been losing so much ground to Chrome. Users aren't happily > > taking up your mission of resisting H.264 and most of them don't even know > > why H.264 videos are failing to play for them. I've heard many people shrug > > it off as "firefox is buggy with video, use chrome." > > http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html
Ok, I stand corrected. Nevertheless, a chromium user who is serious about HTML5 video can download chromium-codecs-ffmpeg from a (most likely unofficial) repository. A firefox user who wants the same thing has to download gstreamer-ffmpeg from an unofficial repository and recompile a patched firefox. So ground is probably still being lost. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
