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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by the8472 on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:54PM (#9214686)
Doesn't IE use directshow filters for playback? As long as anything like ffdshow or lavfilters is installed it could just use those.

Afaik firefox uses system-provided h.264 decoders to support that since they don't want to ship one with firefox.

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by kuschku on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:51PM (#9215598)
Firefox ships their own decoder now, Cisco donated a license of the MPEG patents to Mozilla.
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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by the8472 on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:03PM (#9215638)
I have been told that's only used for webrtc. playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux or media foundation on windows.
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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by le_lenny_face on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:29AM (#9218140)
>playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux

If only. It uses that broken pile of abstraction called GStreamer.

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