Chris Ilias wrote:
On 2017-08-26 8:06 AM, null wrote:
But getting back to the problem that I can't use SM or FF to watch
video presented with Youtube's HTML5 Player, people say that I don't
have the necessary codecs or that my XP OS doesn't have the
necessary. Well, my Chrome browser on my XP machine DOES play those
videos. If Chrome has something in it that does that running on XP,
why doesn't FF and SM? Now, I can think of various possible answers
to that question, but i can't identify the correct answer.
The following also applies to SeaMonkey:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats>
"[10] To avoid patent issues, support for MPEG 4, H.264 and MP3 is not
built directly into Firefox. Instead it relies on support from the OS
or hardware (the hardware also needs to be able to support the profile
used to encode the video, in the case of MP4). Firefox supports these
formats on the following platforms: Windows Vista+ since Firefox 22.0,
Android since Firefox 20.0, Firefox OS since Firefox 15.0, Linux since
Firefox 26.0 (relies on GStreamer codecs) and OS X 10.7 since Firefox
35.0."
Thanks indeed for the above link to that stuff - hadn't come across it
myself, very interesting but also very complex, still reading and slowly
trying to get my head around it. thanks again.
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