Firefox Enables FFmpeg Support By Default
For those with FFmpeg present on their system, Mozilla developers have finally enabled FFmpeg support to be used by default.
Firefox on Linux has relied upon GStreamer for media support, but with the patches merged last month is support for Libav 9 or FFmpeg 1.2 or newer by default.
The work actually landed one month ago but former Phoronix intern Eric Griffith had just mentioned it this weekend about the default FFmpeg support going into Firefox Aurora.
More details via this Mozilla.org bug report that tracked the progress of FFmpeg support by default in Firefox.
Firefox on Linux has relied upon GStreamer for media support, but with the patches merged last month is support for Libav 9 or FFmpeg 1.2 or newer by default.
The work actually landed one month ago but former Phoronix intern Eric Griffith had just mentioned it this weekend about the default FFmpeg support going into Firefox Aurora.
More details via this Mozilla.org bug report that tracked the progress of FFmpeg support by default in Firefox.
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