Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
 

So yeah, the question is clear.
How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
Compile firefox without webm support?


Or there's some other way around?

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Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
 

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
<contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> So yeah, the question is clear.
> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile
> firefox without webm support?
>
> Or there's some other way around?
>
> --
> Nilesh Govindrajan
> http://nileshgr.com
>

Go to Firefox preferences, Applications and type "webm" you should see
a dropdown box of what you can do with it. That's just a quick
assumption, mine is already set to gecko-mediaplayer.

Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
 

On Sun 22 Jul 2012 10:53:22 AM IST, Alecks Gates wrote:

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
<contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:

So yeah, the question is clear.
How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile
firefox without webm support?

Or there's some other way around?

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com



Go to Firefox preferences, Applications and type "webm" you should see
a dropdown box of what you can do with it. That's just a quick
assumption, mine is already set to gecko-mediaplayer.



Tried that before posting here. No use.

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
 

On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

So yeah, the question is clear.
How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
Compile firefox without webm support?

Or there's some other way around?


You misunderstand the job GM is doing. It's a video player for embedded
video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. If the embedded
video is WebM, GM will play it. If it's HTML5 video (both WebH and
H.264), then it will not, and Firefox will play it directly.


So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play HTML5
videos using gecko-mediaplayer? :-) (I don't know the answer. I
suspect it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is to
have the browser play the video.)

Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
 

On Sun 22 Jul 2012 06:53:13 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

So yeah, the question is clear.
How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
Compile firefox without webm support?

Or there's some other way around?


You misunderstand the job GM is doing. It's a video player for
embedded video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. If
the embedded video is WebM, GM will play it. If it's HTML5 video
(both WebH and H.264), then it will not, and Firefox will play it
directly.

So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play
HTML5 videos using gecko-mediaplayer? :-) (I don't know the answer.
I suspect it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is
to have the browser play the video.)




Anyway, I got the answer :)
Probably compiling firefox without webm support would get me my way.

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
 

On Jul 22, 2012 8:24 AM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

>

> On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

>>

>> So yeah, the question is clear.

>> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?

>> Compile firefox without webm support?

>>

>> Or there's some other way around?

>

>

> You misunderstand the job GM is doing. *It's a video player for embedded video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. *If the embedded video is WebM, GM will play it. *If it's HTML5 video (both WebH and H.264), then it will not, and Firefox will play it directly.


>

> So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play HTML5 videos using gecko-mediaplayer? *:-) *(I don't know the answer. *I suspect it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is to have the browser play the video.)


>

>

Actually it seems just going to the .webm file in firefox will automatically render as an HTML5 video, even though the mimetype is video/webm.* Firefox doesn't do this for other videos, as near as I can tell -- I only tried it with a .mp4, and it played using gecko-mediaplayer.* I tested both of these files with "file://".* So I think the issue isn't HTML5 at all, but firefox deciding what to do with "video/webm" files, but it's possible I don't understand exactly what firefox does.* I admittedly don't know much about the internals of firefox nor html.



I would agree the simple workaround would be to compile without webm support but it almost seems like a bug in firefox (or perhaps an intended feature).


Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2