** Description changed: With firefox 3.5 html5 was introduced. Since 4.0 both ogg/theora and webm/vp8 video formats are supported. As of firefox 14, gstreamer support can be enabled with --enable- gstreamer. If the required gstreamer codecs are installed then firefox can play H.264 in a <video> tag. === Open questions === 1. Note that the Windows build still only supports patent free codecs. - 2. How stable that code is? Which regression could introduce? - 3. Given the Ubuntu commitment to free software, do we really want to enable support for other codecs other than the officially supported free ones? + 2. Note that youtube already supports webm/vp8 (altough still not for all videos), while wikipedia supports ogg/theora. Which important sites require other codecs? + 3. Chrome supports H.264, but promised to drop support for it ( http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html ). + 4. How stable that code is? Which regression could introduce? + 5. Given the Ubuntu commitment to free software, do we really want to enable support for other codecs other than the officially supported free ones?
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