"5. Given the Ubuntu commitment to free software, do we really want to enable support for other codecs other than the officially supported free ones?"
building with gstreamer does not in itself allow firefox to play h264. it means that firefox can use the gstreamer codecs that you can install. this work equivient to rhythmbox, banshee, totem etc, where codec support is expandable by installing new gstreamer codecs. If there is a desire to prevent firefox supporting non-free formats then its plugin support would need to be disabled so that it can't use flash or realplayer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: With firefox 3.5 html5 was introduced. Since 4.0 both ogg/theora and webm/vp8 video formats are supported. As of firefox 14, gstreamer support can be enabled with --enable- gstreamer. If the required gstreamer codecs are installed then firefox can play H.264 in a <video> tag. === Open questions === 1. Note that the Windows build still only supports patent free codecs. 2. Note that youtube already supports webm/vp8 (altough still not for all videos), while wikipedia supports ogg/theora. Which important sites require other codecs? 3. Chrome supports H.264, but promised to drop support for it ( http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html ). 4. How stable that code is? Which regression could introduce? 5. Given the Ubuntu commitment to free software, do we really want to enable support for other codecs other than the officially supported free ones? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
