What's the plan for H.264 on the Mac?

[mwoo...@googlemail.com]

Native H.264 playback is supported on Windows and Linux platforms but the only bug I can find for Mac support is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=851290

However, even though that bug was completed successfully, the code never made it into the main repository and according to the comments on the bug, the plan for the Mac has changed.

I'm a little confused because I can find no mention anywhere of what this new plan is nor any bugs for Mac playback support. I would guess the new plan is probably OpenH264 but I cannot find any bugs mentioning playback support (only WebRTC is mentioned) so presumably no-one is working on this if there is no bug.

Can someone clarify what the plan is and point me in the direction of the relevant bugs?

[Chris Pearce]

We are integrating the MP4 demuxer used in Android into Gecko (bug
908503), and we are working on using the H.264/AAC decoders provided by
MacOSX to decode media data that we demux using said demuxer (bug
941296). This will give us MP4/H.264/AAC support on MacOSX.

Hopefully this will ship in Firefox 32.

Cheers,
Chris P.

[mwoo...@googlemail.com]

Thanks for the clarification, Chris. That actually sounds like a better solution than GStreamer.

[strid...@gmail.com]

The bug reports referenced by Chris (908503, 941296) appear to be fixed in the first week of September. Firefox 32 is currently the latest stable released version. With FF32 installed I am still unable to play vimeo videos (flash disabled). Were the bug fixes included in FF32?

[Ralph Giles]

On 2014-09-10 5:38 PM, strid...@gmail.com wrote:
> The bug reports referenced by Chris (908503, 941296) appear to be fixed in the first week of September. Firefox 32 is currently the latest stable released version. With FF32 installed I am still unable to play vimeo videos (flash disabled). Were the bug fixes included in FF32?

No, mp4 playback on Mac is enabled starting in Firefox 34.

-r

[br...@tvtrip.com]

Firefox 34 is launched, do you success to watch a html 5 mp4 ?

[Ralph Giles]

On 2014-12-03 1:40 AM, br...@tvtrip.com wrote:

> Firefox 34 is launched, do you success to watch a html 5 mp4 ?

Sorry, we disabled it late in the Firefox 34 beta period over stability
concerns. Current plan is Firefox 35, to be released in six weeks.

I should have mentioned here.

-r

[jorge.u...@gmail.com]

Any update on this?

[ccwi...@g.harvard.edu]

On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 9:12:08 AM UTC-4, jorge.u...@gmail.com wrote:
> Any update on this?

It made it in Firefox 35 for OS X, "Built-in support for H264 (MP4) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and newer through native APIs."
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/35.0/releasenotes/

Firefox ESR 38.0 for OS X is the first ESR version with support.