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tested:
Centos 7
firefox 52.2.0 and 57.0
52.2.0 is the one from the centos distribution, 57.0 is the one I got when I
downloaded from mozilla's website tonight.
Two different machines, one my production machine and one a fresh install.
visit the site http://www.youtube.com/html5 . I get checkmarks by
htmlvideoelement
media source extensions
webm vp8
mse & webm vp9
but I do not get checkmarks by:
h.264
mse & h.264
What I see online is that I'm supposed use firefox and visit about:config
and set various flags to certain values. I'm supposed to set
media.fragmented*
various suffixes, to various values, but none of these
appear on my machine (either version of firefox). I also read that these
flags are obsolete/deprecated from firefox 44.0 on, so i guess that's why.
media.mp4.enabled true
media.mediasource.enabledtrue
media.mediasource.mp4.enabledtrue
media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabledtrue
media.mediasource.webm.enabledtrue
So those are what I have, but those aren't the ones I'm supposed to have,
unless what I'm reading online is obsolete.
I checked plugins (open menu --> add-ons --> plugins) and it claims
openh264 is automatically installed. and active.
Chrome, by the way, works--that is, the youtube site gives me six
checkmarks.
So, does anyone know of a modern answer to whether firefox on linux
can do html5 video? Are there some rpms I might be missing? Seems
like that couldn't be the issue given that chrome works. (I've driven
myself a little bit nuts on this, I guess.) Yeah, yeah, i could use chrome
but I like firefox and it seems like firefox ought to work.