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]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2013/03/18/h-264-license-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-33371 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:43:26 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=17864#comment-33371 Mozilla Brings Native H.264 Video to Desktop Firefox
http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/mozilla-brings-native-h-264-to-firefox-nightly/

The latest nightly builds of desktop Firefox now support the ubiquitous H.264 video and MP3 codecs. When the current Firefox Nightly arrives in final form later this year, Firefox users will no longer need the Flash plugin to play H.264 web video in Firefox.

Firefox for Android and Firefox OS already support H.264 and MP3, but on the desktop the new H.264 support is, thus far, only available in the Windows 7 Nightly release.

Mozilla long opposed supporting the H.264 codec because it’s patent-encumbered and requires licensing fees. For better or worse it’s also the most popular codec for HTML5 video on the web, which drove Mozilla to take the pragmatic approach and add support to Firefox. Instead of including the codec directly in Firefox, the browser will rely on OS-level tools to play H.264 video.

Eventually all platforms except Windows XP will get OS-native codec support for H.264 video. Windows XP, which lacks OS-level tools for H.264, will continue to use the Flash plugin to play H.264 movies.

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