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

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:39:10PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 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?

Support for other OSes is not there yet.

Mike