Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by zerocrates on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:46AM
(#25710929)
I believe Firefox will support H.264 for videos only using the operating system's own support (so on Linux, if you have it supported in gstreamer and/or ffmpeg then it's supported in Firefox).
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Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by labawi on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:21AM
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Linux firefox Plugins tab, though I'm not sure if it's used beyond webrtc:
> OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.
> This plugin is automatically installed by Mozilla to comply with the WebRTC specification and to enable WebRTC calls with devices that require the H.264 video codec. Visit https://www.openh264.org/ to view the codec source code and learn more about the implementation.
Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by zinekeller on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:04AM
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Nope, it isn't used beyond WebRTC, and in Windows it even autodetects if the computer has a capable enough hardware encoder and use that instead (and decoding through native Windows libraries if there isn't a suitable hardware decoder).