Does Firefox play mp4 h.264 within the HTML5 video tag?

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Stoimen

As Firefox has declared it will play only open formats within the HTML5 video tag support. But however is there any way to play video with the mp4 h.264 codec under FF with no plugin support?

That is the question.

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4 Responses to Does Firefox play mp4 h.264 within the HTML5 video tag?

  1. Stoimen says:
    March 5, 2010 at 10:38 am

    After a short test the answer is – NO!

  3. Stoimen says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    Hi Mike,

    yes It’s a shame the only way to make it work is with h.264 flash player, however you can support only one video file, which is good.

    thanks,
    stoimen

  4. Thunder says:
    August 4, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    Yes it is possible. Following is the code.

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