Firefox & HTML5 Youtube Video

Marky · 22 Jan 2010 at 19:54

Howdy all,

Firefox already supports HTML 5... including the nice <video> tag that has been introduced...

However, Firefox doesn't support all movie/audio extensions and apparently, this is the reason why us awesome Firefox users can't play with the new HTML 5 videos on Youtube!!

Is there any news about when we will get support for this neat little feature?

Thanks,

Marky

mrk · 22 Jan 2010 at 20:17

When it's done!

HTML5 on Vimeo and Youtube is still early days, they don't support captions or annotations yet either and Firefox loves the Ogg Theora codec but these sites will get round to it, not soon but in the near future.

UncertainGod · 22 Jan 2010 at 20:26

Googles html 5 video is using h.264 and Firefox's video implementation is far from finished and doesn't play that yet.

masterluke · 22 Jan 2010 at 22:15

As i understand it there is a sizable licencing cost associated with supporting h.264

Ogg Theora is an open solution so I really hope this gets used over h.264 going forward.