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On Jul 22, 2012 8:24 AM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>> So yeah, the question is clear. |
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>> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? |
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>> Compile firefox without webm support? |
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>> Or there's some other way around? |
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> You misunderstand the job GM is doing. It's a video player for embedded |
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video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. If the embedded |
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video is WebM, GM will play it. If it's HTML5 video (both WebH and H.264), |
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then it will not, and Firefox will play it directly. |
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> So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play HTML5 |
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videos using gecko-mediaplayer? :-) (I don't know the answer. I suspect |
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it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is to have the |
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browser play the video.) |
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Actually it seems just going to the .webm file in firefox will |
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automatically render as an HTML5 video, even though the mimetype is |
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video/webm. Firefox doesn't do this for other videos, as near as I can |
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tell -- I only tried it with a .mp4, and it played using |
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gecko-mediaplayer. I tested both of these files with "file://". So I |
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think the issue isn't HTML5 at all, but firefox deciding what to do with |
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"video/webm" files, but it's possible I don't understand exactly what |
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firefox does. I admittedly don't know much about the internals of firefox |
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nor html. |
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I would agree the simple workaround would be to compile without webm |
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support but it almost seems like a bug in firefox (or perhaps an intended |
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feature). |
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