Do the streaming issues resolve themselves ✨magically✨ when faking the user agent to be Chrome for those streaming sites, e.g. using Firefox and a user agent add-on?
Pretty sure Firefox added support for HEVC a while back, but it relies on the system to provide the decoder (Which you’ll usually have to pay extra for)
Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.
Funny thing is, the WebM format is actually a constrained profile of MKV, and Firefox strictly enforced those compatibility checks. Chrome never did though, so it could always support MKV files but only if you lied and claimed they were WebM.
Edit: Lemmy eats the highlight in the link, look for “Matroska” under “Web Platform”
Do the streaming issues resolve themselves ✨magically✨ when faking the user agent to be Chrome for those streaming sites, e.g. using Firefox and a user agent add-on?
Many do, yes. Any time I get an error message like “You’re not using a supported browser” that message vanishes after adjusting the user agent.
Well yes, the warning messages will disappear as those are often shown or not shown based on user agent.
But will the actual streaming issues go away is the big question.
Teams on the web for example, worked fine in Firefox even though it warned the user it didn’t work in anything but Chrome.
I have not encountered streaming issues that could not be resolved by user agent so far.
That’s the neat part - all always do!
My issues were with h265/HEVC support, proprietary stuff like media codecs can sometimes be a pain. I no longer have that need so I’m a happy fox.
Pretty sure Firefox added support for HEVC a while back, but it relies on the system to provide the decoder (Which you’ll usually have to pay extra for)
Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.
Since when‽ It feels like support for that format took centuries!
In 145.
Funny thing is, the WebM format is actually a constrained profile of MKV, and Firefox strictly enforced those compatibility checks. Chrome never did though, so it could always support MKV files but only if you lied and claimed they were WebM.
Edit: Lemmy eats the highlight in the link, look for “Matroska” under “Web Platform”
Not in this case. It’s an open source project. They usually don’t do this shit.
Tell them to get their shit together and support open-source browsers, or more accurately just browser standards in general.