[Bulk] firefox 24.0,1 (ports rev. r328930)

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Wed Oct 16 11:04:54 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 12:11 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I was higly surprised about the fact that FF 24.0
> is able out of the box (i.e. without installing linux-flash) to play
> content from youtube.com; it says a short moment "a plugin is needed to
> play this content", but than the movie comes up. How is this working?

Hi Matthias,

HTML5 enables it, assumed there are no advertisings.

You will notice that it won't work for most other platforms for videos.
YouTube does encode with proprietary and free codecs, while most other
platforms encode with proprietary codecs only.

Regards,
Ralf



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