If you have problems with them, uninstall these plugins and use ffmpeg/libav instead. Unofficial Firefox plugins for xine decoders might be broken. It only gives a old way to embed VLC player inside web pages. Though Firefox has OpenH264 (by Cisco) plugin, it is NOT used to decode HTML5 video.įirefox VLC plugin has nothing to do with HTML5 video. If you want to know if your Firefox supports H.264 video, checkout the following page: That is why you need to upgrade these packages with Packman/VLC's version. All patent related codecs were removed, so it is not able to play MP4/H.264 video. OpenSUSE provides ffmpeg/libav packages like libavcodec56, but they are "disabled". If you installed libav libraries, Firefox can detect your system and use available them to decode MP4/H.264 video. Luckily, Packman and VLC repositories have these useful packages. That is why your fresh new openSUSE installation cannot play video on web pages. To deal with patent problems, neither Firefox nor openSUSE provides H264 codec to support. So if your web browser doesn't support H.264 codec, these videos cannot be loaded or played. Many websites provide only MP4 format for HTML5 video stream. For Leap 15.1, adding the Packman repositories worked flawlessly.Īs a historical issue, MP4/H.264 becomes a widely used video format on the internet. This solution works very fine for openSUSE Leap 15.0 on HP Probook 6470b and this is the only one which allows us to view videos on ARTE.TV tv channels and view the Eurosport player TV channel. Note: You can achieve the same via command line, ensure your system is up to date prior activation of the Packman repositories and then after enabling them, simply run the following command: "zypper up -allow-vendor-change" as root.At least, to close/reopen the current session. On December 31, 2020, Adobe ended support of Flash Player. Flash was specifically built to integrate vector graphics and light games in a web page, features that HTML5 also supports. 1 Both include features for playing audio and video within web pages.
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