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?
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?
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):
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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 for mediasource
. That should leave you with the media.mediasource.enabled
option. Double click to enable.
On the Youtube panel the MSE & H.264
option is still crossed out... But the other two MSE options are now green.
On top of the accepted answer, on Ubuntu 14.10 (FF 36.0) to obtain the OK for the MSE & H.264
you should set this properties to true
on about:config
:
All the steps above greatly helped me above, for anyone stuck, i have listed a "all in one" fix
1) Open terminal and enter sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
2) open firefox and enter about:config
in the address bar, then search :
mediasource
3) Change all listed values to True
4) search media.fragmented-mp4
again set the 3 values from the top to true
5) Right click and select New then Boolean
6) enter in the box media.mediasource.ignore_codecs
in the next box select true then ok
7) go to youtube.com/html5 and enjoy green :D
You need to create a new preference to do so:
media.mediasource.ignore_codecs
.If you go back to YouTube's HTML page, you should see all six technologies listed as supported
my firefox stopped playing recently. I had to turn media.fragmented-mp4.enabled to false to make it work again.
EDIT: I had perfectly running youtube via HTML5 for many months already, all codecs enabled. I managed to set it up based on internet posts but cant recall exactly how.
The post i write now is about recent situation that it stopped working, and video was not shown, except 240p and lower.. I did try various settings and finally found the reason - for my case:
All I had to do was to open about:config, search media.fragmented-mp4.enabled and change it to false.
Also check your browser add-ons! I fought this on a new install of Firefox in Mint up and down before I noticed a counter on an Add-On called Disconnect was really running up on a page that was giving me problems playing video. I white-listed the web page in the app and it worked fine!