Firefox 47

Posted Jun 15, 2016 2:27 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Firefox 47 by cpeterso
Parent article: Firefox 47

> the percentage of Linux Firefox users who can now play H.264 video jumped from about 58% (using gstreamer in Firefox 42) to 88% (using calling ffmpeg directly in Firefox 43)

What is wrong with the OS that basic components like media handling are that poorly standardized that bypassing it resulted in 20% more success across the same user base. The basic functionality that gstreamer provides should be reliably accessible on any system you might conceivably run Firefox on, that it's not is sad.

Firefox 47

Posted Jun 15, 2016 8:12 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

I don't know, it's only as "basic" as the toolkit, which is not standardized either.
Or if you look at it another way, it's very standardized, with 90% of installations having ffmpeg.