On 25/07/2013 18:38, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Gabriel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I use Safari, I automatically see YouTube and other websites videos
>> without using Flash (I installed an extension for that), and I also can
>> download a video just by right-clicking/download.
>>
>> Now, with SM 2.20 (User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X
>> 10.6; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 SeaMonkey/2.20) when I check
>> the browser capabilities (www.youtube.com/html5) I have:
>> - tag video YES
>> - h.264 NO
>> - WebM YES
>>
>> Is this correct? SM can't natively use h.264?
> 
> Reporting error?
> 
> SM 2.19/Windows shows green for all three. Surprising to see a later 
> version with fewer capabilities.

> h.264 NO

h.264 is patent encumbered so Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey/etc does not
ship with a h.264 decoder. However if you have already installed a h.264
codec in your operating system, SeaMonkey (must be a really new version)
will use that to decode h.264.

Phil

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