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Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by shmerl on Sunday December 07, 2014 @04:30AM (#8711742)
In order for DASH to work you need Media Source Extensions support. Firefox for example doesn't support them yet.
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Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by mcovey on Sunday December 07, 2014 @08:55AM (#8712153)
They're hidden behind an about:config flag - media.mediasource.enabled

The latest version of developer edition/aurora just enabled them by default, so version 36. They may be only ~12 weeks away from becoming default in the stable build.

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Re:HTML5 Video and the End of Plugins by shmerl on Sunday December 07, 2014 @01:47PM (#8713101)
Thanks, I didn't know that setting already made it into the stable build. Now I can watch Youtube in high resolution (and in VP9 with that!) without using Flash. Why is it still disabled though, there are some bugs left?

UPDATE: some remaining issues are listed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617

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