[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqueto at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 19:22:35 EDT 2010


2010/6/15 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 17:51 -0500, Muhammed Uluyol wrote:
>> > HTML5 only works on Chrome/IE I think. Firefox devs decided they would
>> > go with the Vorbis rather than x264 codecs, while youtube decided the
>> > other way round.
>> Youtube uses webm now, not h.264.
>>
>> Firefox should have support in their nightly builds.
>
> Oh, my information is outdated then. When did this happen? I do recall
> searching before (probably when all this html5-youtube stuff started)
> and seeing clear statements that firefox would not support h.264 due to
> HTML5 being an open standard or something along those lines.

I think that there's a misunderstood here. Youtube is using webm in
the experimental version of the site. And Firefox nightly build has
support for webm, not h.264.

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