I found a topic on support.mozilla.org about playing videos in an external player that suggested disabling "media.windows-media-foundation.enabled" in about:config.
That setting doesn't exist in the Linux version of firefox, but after experimenting with a number of settings in about:config, I found that disabling "media.gstreamer.enabled" fixed the problem. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:30 PM, John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: > I just tried that, and it still ignores the setting and plays the mp4 in > the browser. > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Richard Pieri <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So... reset to "ask" and try again. > > If that doesn't work then it's a bug. > > > > -- > > Rich P. > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / 2013 PGP-Key-ID > 0x920063C6 > 2013 / ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 > 63C6 > 2011 / ID 0x32A492D8 / FP 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 > 92D8 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix / [email protected] / WWW http://blu.org PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 / FP A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
