Firefox HTML5 videos with h.264 and WebM

[sam tygier]

On 02/04/13 11:41, Thomas Waldecker wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> 
> is somebody using Firefox without the Adobe Flashplugin, and using the HTML5 video features?
> 
> I removed the Adobe Flashplugin. On Youtube some videos are working, some not. On Vimeo nothing works.
> 
> With Midori vimeo works, youtube doesn't work.
> 
> I would like firefox to support h.264 videos.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> 

Since Firefox 14 it has had a build time option to enable gstreamer. Then if you have the gstreamer codec for h.264 installed it will play. see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843583
hopefully it will be enabled in the fedora build soon.

once you have a gstreamer enabled firefox vimeo still does not work (i think because of their browser detection), but you can circumvent that by using the embedded player. ie change the url from something like https://vimeo.com/55157792 to https://player.vimeo.com/video/55157792 . I do this with the following bookmarklet

javascript:(function()%20{window.location=window.location.toString().replace('vimeo.com/','player.vimeo.com/video/');})()

sam