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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:45:07PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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.

I understand that to enable it, you need to enable gstreamer (#682917)


Kurt