Mason83 wrote:
On 22/08/2017 13:17, null wrote:
There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe
Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player.
Flash is on the way out (December 2020).
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/25/adobe-retires-flash-in-december-2020/
Webm is a video format using only free audio/video codecs
(On2 VP8&VP9, Vorbis, Opus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
HTML5 is a family of technologies, one of which is the video element.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
In particular, you'll want to read carefully
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Free_formats
The problem is patents, and companies owning these
patents. Specifically H.264 and MPEG-LA.
(Although Cisco did provide a royalty-free H.264
decoder, if I am not mistaken...)
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperability-on-the-web-gets-a-boost-from-ciscos-h-264-codec/
AV1 will set us all free!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1
Alliance for Open Media Video 1
Increasingly videos from this or that source will not play in either SM
or FF.
For instance, recent videos posted to Youtube increasingly will not play
in SM 2.46.
Please provide an URL (or several) of such videos.
I'm willing to bet that they work on most SM setups.
Regards.
Thanks for above links, which are very helpful. I would post some URLs
for videos I can't play, but an odd thing is happening. Some videos that
wouldn't play now will play, and some that would now won't, so I'm going
to poke around on this a bit more with Youtube and see if I can pin
down some stable examples.
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