Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by exodust on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:16PM (#50420608)

I can't play the video at all in firefox desktop because the video is encoded as h265 which firefox won't play unless specific extensions are installed.

h264 is the better choice for short progressive download clips on websites if compatibility matters.

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by capitainenemo on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:28PM (#50420689)

huh. plays fine for me in firefox stable on linux, and with no extensions in firefox. Do you mean OS extensions?

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by exodust on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:26AM (#50442589)

I'm on Windows 10, integrated graphics. Firefox needs OS codec. I can play h265 fine in Potplayer but that uses its own built-in decoder.

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by yobert on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:13PM (#50420991)

H265 plays fine in firefox for me! No special extensions, just linux

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by exodust on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:10AM (#50442339)

I'm on Windoze 10, integrated graphics on this particular PC, it doesn't play in FF.

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by NavinF on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:36AM (#50422315)

Your system is broken, FF has supported h265 on every OS for a long time now:

>Firefox enables HEVC on:

>Windows from Firefox 134 using either hardware (on devices that support it, where the range is the same as Edge) or software (on Windows the user must pay for and install an extension)

>macOS from Firefox 136 using either hardware or software.

>Linux from Firefox 137 using either hardware or software (via the system ffmpeg).

>Android from Firefox 137 using hardware only.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Fo...

...and even if this wasn't the case, FF has 2.5% market share. Using a 20 year old codec for 2.5% would be insane. If anything, he should be using a newer codec like AV1 that's also widely supported.

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by michaelt on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:55AM (#50422932)

> Using a 20 year old codec for 2.5% would be insane.

Surprisingly, in my experience h264 produces higher quality (better VMAF) for the same bitrate.

My theory is all the codec-optimisation attention went to h264 because of the crazy licensing situation of h265

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by NavinF on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:23AM (#50423155)

The crazy licensing situation is only relevant to nerds, pretty much any chip you care about has hardware h265 decode.

You probably used the wrong settings. Netflix said "AV1 streaming sessions achieve VMAF scores that are 4.3 points higher than AVC and 0.9 points higher than HEVC sessions" 9 months ago: https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-s...

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by michaelt on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:44PM (#50432683)

> The crazy licensing situation is only relevant to nerds,

Allow me to rephrase: "I can understand why an open source developer, when considering what codec to contribute their time to optimising, might not choose the one that has four required rival patent pools waiting to get rich from their unpaid work"

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by cubefox on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:42AM (#50424806)

> If anything, he should be using a newer codec like AV1 that's also widely supported.

I don't think that's accurate, since the first Apple processors with AV1 support only came out in late 2023 (A17 Pro, M3).

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by capitainenemo on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:19PM (#50435654)

Cloudflare reports 3.5% FWIW. JS based trackers tend to be skewed down by tracking protection.

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by exodust on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:35AM (#50442701)

> Your system is broken

No it isn't. I am running Windoze 10 which doesn't have the h265 codec Firefox needs.

I can play h265 fine in PotPlayer which uses its own decoder. Firefox depends on the OS.

You have the choice to use highly compatible video formats on the web, or shrug and put a single h265 file in your video tag like OP did.

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by alt227 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:46AM (#50423346)

Plays fine for me in Firefox on Windows.

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