This is also the version of Firefox where mandatory extension signing finally gets turned on. Since I'm using at least one that hasn't been signed (nor updated since 2010), this is where we say goodbye... It's been many happy years, but it will be 46.something for me, and eventually another browser.
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Firefox 47 Beta Enables VP9, Embedded YouTube Videos Use HTML5
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Originally posted by Gusar View Postadding support for a codec that is a big giant mess licensing wise does not make sense. Wait for AV1, the codec from the Alliance for Open Media, that's where the stuff is. Until then, h264 will do.
Speaking of conference: If you've been following Xiph's presentations, since Cisco and Google joined them to develop together the AOMedia initiative, with idea thrown in by everyone (Xiph contributes with Daala, Cisco with Thor, Google with VP9 - and all together will be used to produce NETVC), the result has been slowly increasing quality, and has reached the point where, on some data set, the codec is slightly better than x265 on some metric.
(See Slide #36 & 37 of the IETF 95 presentation. PSNR-HVS is better on some high bitrates, and FastSSIM is better, including in the bitrates used by Youtube).
It's not yet dominating nearly everything like Opus (Opus: except for tiny bitrates that don't make any sense on the Internet where AMR-NB is still competitive), but it's already a step in the good direction.
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Originally posted by plonoma View PostA while ago I read Firefox had specific code for enabling html5 video element on youtube.
Does this mean the youtube specific code is now replaced by generic code?
Does this new code allows html5 video element to transparently work on other websites and embedded links from other video websites?
Do embedded video links, with the link from sites other than youtube work without Flash too now?
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With Firefox 47 Beta, embedded YouTube videos can now play with HTML5 video if Flash is not present
Does this mean the youtube specific code is now replaced by generic code?
Does this new code allows html5 video element to transparently work on other websites and embedded links from other video websites?
Do embedded video links, with the link from sites other than youtube work without Flash too now?
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostThe first video that appears in YT when your search for 4k, "Costa Rica in 4K", used to play like crap in Firefox in VP9. Now you can play at 1440p smoothly in a i5 notebook, unthinkable one year ago, when even 720p was stuttering.
Originally posted by uid313 View PostNow that Firefox 46 got GTK3 support, I hope that Firefox 47 gets Wayland support.
Originally posted by anarki2 View PostYeah, cool, how about some H.265 support instead. That may actually make sense.Last edited by Gusar; 28 April 2016, 02:29 PM.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostNow that Firefox 46 got GTK3 support, I hope that Firefox 47 gets Wayland support.
So users of Ubuntu might be running FF 46 on gtk2.
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Ah, Windows only, now makes sense. Also, the VP9 decoder is now much more efficient than years ago. I still have a sample that used to bring my machine to his knees and now is very fluid.
The first video that appears in YT when your search for 4k, "Costa Rica in 4K", used to play like crap in Firefox in VP9. Now you can play at 1440p smoothly in a i5 notebook, unthinkable one year ago, when even 720p was stuttering. Firefox still have some speed difference compared to Chrome to play 4k videos, but is closing fast.
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Originally posted by Gusar View PostTry the same in Windows. H.264 is prioritized where hardware decoding is available. It's not in Firefox on Linux, so Linux gets VP9.
We're increasing the number of users for whom we're enabling VP9 from about 10% (people who don't have H.264) to 50% (people with fast enough machines).
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Originally posted by anarki2 View PostYeah, cool, how about some H.265 support instead. That may actually make sense.
Btw: https://i.imgur.com/FHUpJ5h.jpg
Also I'm glad they preferred enabling a royalty-free codec to enabling a royalty-encumbered one.
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