Bug#623488: Support H.264 video when codecs are installed.

Rogério Brito rbrito at ime.usp.br
Wed Oct 24 17:16:06 UTC 2012


Package: iceweasel
Followup-For: Bug #623488

First of all, thanks Mike for all the hard work that you've been doing in
maintaining iceweasel.

Anyway, just as extra information for those that see this bug report, what
Mike said as:

> Firefox doesn't and won't support H264 for ideological reasons.

Is now not that relevant anymore, as mozilla's plans for use of H.264 have
changed. Just one instance of discussion related to this:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/487120/


Thanks again,

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