2009/11/26 Andrea mariofutire@googlemail.com:
Hi,
recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins. It's the big HTML5 + <video> saga.
I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit but not very well.
Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/
It's a good example of what does not work.
If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.
Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work even without pressing pause.
Not on a Fedora system right now, but the http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/ example is working for me on Firefox 3.5.5 on Slackware (pausing, backwards and forwards, etc.), so that might be a Fedora-specific problem. The http://www.youtube.com/html5 example does not work, right clicking on it to 'save as' shows it is an mp4 file, which is probably not supported without extra plugins. The failure to specify a basic codec support for HTML5 was its major failing.