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

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Thu May 16 18:39:10 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 03:16:06PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> 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/

Firefox 21.0 changed the defaults to enable it, and I have support
for h264 on windows 7.  Can iceweasel now also enable the support
for it?


Kurt



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