521635 - firefox wont play youtube wideos, you must install flash, coud you plese make mozila posiable to run videos without flash?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[thewormhole]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

on new html 5 standart you have video tag and on yors page you demostrated how this tag works - you can stream video without flash. So coud you reprogram mozila to stream videos without flash instaled on yor computer?
google can show pdf ducoments without adobe reader, so they will sun inplement video streaming without flash.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
view youtube videos without adobe flash

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

We support HTML5 <video> with Ogg Theora codec (see http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/12/19/give-part-2-lossy-video-codecs for an overview of existing codecs). For youtube videos to play in Firefox without Flash, they need to
a) use <video> instead of Flash (which they're experimenting with - http://www.youtube.com/html5 )
- AND -
b) use a codec we support (Theora). Last I heard they were not going to do that (http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5-video-codec-debate.ars ).

We obviously won't automatically replace Flash objects that implement video players with <video> (the site has to choose to use <video> - (a) above) and there are no plans to support H.264 at this moment (see bug 495340).

(Also related: bug 435339 comment 53.)