On 8/07/13 8:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:50 -0700, J. Liles wrote:

http://youtu.be/GVm5Jd1WDWw

Can't be played with Firefox 22.0. Google Chrome can play it, but IMO
the need for Adobe Flash Player should be dropped by videos done by the
Linux community.

Youtube usually does transcode videos to WebM format for playback on Firefox, etc. using only free codecs. I can't say why Youtube hasn't done that yet for this video; it could just be that it takes a while for the WebM transcodes to happen, and not enough time has elapsed yet. Perhaps within a few days the WebM version will be available and you'll be able to watch the video in Firefox.

As far as major video sites go, Youtube is way ahead of the curve in its support for free codecs -- there's no alternative video sharing that I know of that offers such (relatively) comprehensive WebM support.

The alternative is for people posting videos to host them themselves, but that's non-trivial, since you also have to also provide a h.264/AAC version to have the video work on IE, Safari, and most mobile devices. It'd be a shame if users of those platforms were unable to see some of the cool things happening in the free software world.

So... it's not an easy problem to solve, and currently, there's not really a better solution than Youtube.

Thanks
Leigh

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