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Firefox has native vp8/webm support. I know as I use it when I visit Youtube pretty much everyday and watch webm (vp8) videos. I don't have flash installed.
by gillianseed 14y ago
Firefox has native vp8/webm support. I know as I use it when I visit Youtube pretty much everyday and watch webm (vp8) videos. I don't have flash installed.
- homosaur 14y agoDoes YT default to this if you go there with a newer Firefox?
- sp332 14y agoNo, but you can opt-in at https://youtube.com/html5 https://youtube.com/html5
- gillianseed 14y agoI would assume so, since when I clicked at the link sp332 provided, it says that I'm not part of the HTML5 trial, and asks me to join.
- ComputerGuru 14y agoI don't think that's what he meant. Firefox was the last browser to refuse to use (not just ship, but to even use already-installed) patent-encumbered video codecs. i.e. even if you had an h264 decoder on your PC, Firefox would refuse to play h264-encoded videos. This was their (very obstinate) stance for years, and has been a source of much consternation within the FF community, as theirs was the only browser to refuse to play many online videos not available in vp8 or theora. They finally gave in last month and will now use an h264 decoder if such a decoder is installed on your PC (though FF does not ship with, nor (to the best of my knowledge) will ever ship with, such a decoder).