Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:04:45 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] firefox 24.0,1 (ports rev. r328930) Message-ID: <1381921485.1125.16.camel@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20131016101127.GA2140@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <20131016101127.GA2140@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 12:11 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I was higly surprised about the fact that FF 24.0 > is able out of the box (i.e. without installing linux-flash) to play > content from youtube.com; it says a short moment "a plugin is needed to > play this content", but than the movie comes up. How is this working? Hi Matthias, HTML5 enables it, assumed there are no advertisings. You will notice that it won't work for most other platforms for videos. YouTube does encode with proprietary and free codecs, while most other platforms encode with proprietary codecs only. Regards, Ralf
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