How can I get Firefox to fully support html5 video?
The YouTube HTML5 Video Player says that H.264 and Media Source Extensions are not supported. Is there any way I can enable all of these?
Ubuntu – Firefox html5 video support
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The ubuntu-restricted-extras has all the multimedia decoding packages in and working for me on the decoding end. And chromium automatically used the ffmpeg plug-in.
If there are packages in restricted-extras you are sure you don't want you could try just
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra from the Software Center:
Or in Terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Just to be sure it makes it in to chromium and you don't just get the codec.
For 12.04 / 14.04 / 18.10
Just visited the HTML5 Youtube test and I have H.264 checked; you probably will need to install Ubuntu restricted extras to get the gstreamer codecs.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
You may need to restart.
Best Answer
Many of the features on that table are extremely new. The Media Source Extension spec, for example, is still a draft and is still being written. And it's being driven by Google and Netflix. It's going to take time for the spec to mature to a point where Mozilla want to spend any time implementing it.
h.264 support is somewhat easier (if you're on 12.04 - it's currently muddier if you're on 14.04):
Update: In Firefox 30 (should be the default in all supported versions now), the feature is there but it's disabled by default. This should change in Firefox 31 but you can enable MSE by going to
about:config(stick that in the address bar) and searching formediasource. That should leave you with themedia.mediasource.enabledoption. Double click to enable.On the Youtube panel the
MSE & H.264option is still crossed out... But the other two MSE options are now green.