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Still no h.264 on Mac :(
by k2enemy 13y ago
Still no h.264 on Mac :(
- shmerl 13y agoLinux has it though, through GStreamer (but you need to set media.gstreamer.enabled to true in about:config). Is there any way to set a preference for free formats by the way? I.e. if the page specified several sources for the audio or video tags, but puts MP4 first let's say, is there way to override that and say "always prefer WebM if present" or something like that?
- edf825 13y agoHi! This is on my to-do list. Should be in Nightly builds in a few months' time.
- jeena 13y agoThis can not happen because of licenses afaik.
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoWhy can't they use the built-in decoder in OSX like they do in Windows?
- padenot 13y agoWe are doing that, it just tales time.
- edf825 13y agoLicensing is the responsibility of the party distributing the codec. When using the platform decoder any licensing fees have already been paid by, e.g. Apple. This is coming soon.
- ck2 13y agoOr XP (no media framework api) But youtube encodes popular videos into the native firefox formats.
- mhurron 13y agoIt's never going to happen on XP.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoDepends on whether XP outlasts the H.264 patents (currently 2028 but they like to keep adding new patents to these pools to extend the time they have lock in for). So I'd say it's 50/50.
- drzaiusapelord 13y ago2028? Its incredible how we're using 18th century understanding of intellectual property in the modern age. The monied interests have really figured out how to game this broken system.