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Microsoft Is Releasing an H.264 Plugin For Firefox

Posted by timothy on from the such-charity dept.

ndogg writes "Microsoft has announced that it is releasing an H.264 plugin for Firefox. This plugin does not add H.264 capabilities to Firefox, but rather allows it to use the H.264 capabilities built into Windows 7. With that in mind, it sounds like it may not work on anything other than Windows 7."

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  1. Re:Good enough? by moonbender · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know I'm probably responding to a troll, but for the record, hardware video (including H.264) acceleration is supported on Linux desktop via VDPAU/VA API. I can't vouch for the Intel/ATI VA API, but VDPAU has worked fine for me. Playing back a 1080p H.264 file has basically no impact on system load.

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  2. Re:Good by GigaplexNZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm assuming by Win7 only they're including the beta version they called vista.

    Unlikely, Vista doesn't include the H.264 Media Foundation codec that ships with Windows 7.