(In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #241) > Running codecs which other browsers don't support doesn't help web authors. > Our goal is not to inspire web pages 'Best viewed in Firefox'. Quite the > opposite. So adding the wide range of formats gstreamer offers doesn't > advance the web as a platform.
But these are formats that other browsers DO support. It's the main reason that Firefox has been losing so much ground to Chrome. Users aren't happily taking up your mission of resisting H.264 and most of them don't even know why H.264 videos are failing to play for them. I've heard many people shrug it off as "firefox is buggy with video, use chrome." > We have for some years been holding the line against for royalty-free codecs > in HTML against very strong commercial and market pressure, because the > patent terms available for otherwise popular formats like mp3 and mp4 are > incompatible with our principles of user freedom. And linking to Flash in a plugin suggestion box isn't? The whole point of this patch is that it will absolve Firefox of the dilemma to support non-free codecs. If you already had your mind made up that you would not support extra codecs even in this indirect way, I think that is unfair to the people that have worked hard on this patch, probably because they thought it had a chance of being accepted before the mp4 patent expires. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
