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[david]

On 07/05/2013 01:17 PM, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> On 6/07/13 4:38 AM, david wrote:
>> Doesn't play here on Debian Sid Linux with Firefox 22. Displays message:
>> " It appears that we are unable to play this video in your browser for
>> one of the following reasons:
>>
>>      you have JavaScript disabled
>>      your device does not support HTML5 video
>>      you have an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. Download the
>> latest Flash player to view this video."
>>
>> IIRC, HMTL5 video support is very dependent on video drivers: one great
>> disadvantage compared to good old proprietary Flash.
>>
> It shouldn't be dependent on drivers, but not all browsers that support
> HTML5 video (or audio, for that matter) will play all HTML5 videos.
> Different browsers support different codecs, and while Chrome, Safari,
> and IE support proprietary codecs like H.264 and AAC, Firefox supports
> only free codecs, like Theora, VP8 (aka WebM) and Vorbis.
>
> So, while Firefox mostly works with HTML5 video on Youtube (since Google
> supports WebM there for many videos), most other sites only offer H.264
> video via HTML5, which won't work with Firefox. Most of those sites will
> fall back to using Flash to play such videos on Firefox if it's
> available, though.
>
> Thanks
> Leigh

Thanks, I think a cause has been identified. I have H.264 libraries 
installed from deb-multimedia. Too bad someone hasn't done like Adobe 
and written a FF plugin for H.264.

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