[PLUG] Can someone enlighten me on H.265/HEVC

[carl day]

Maybe distros are different, using Archlinux
Firefox depends on ffmpeg, ffmpeg depends on libx265
[can make Chrome/Chromium unGooGled]

On 2/27/23, MC_Sequoia <mcsequoia at protonmail.com> wrote:
> "Is it possible to get Firefox to display HEVC videos?  Everything I have
> read indicates the Mozilla developers have some religious war thing going on
> with MPEG-LA and refuse to put support into Firefox for it -"
>
> HEVC isn't supported in Firefox because it's no a license-free codec.
>
> Some people might color that as a "religious war", but those people don't
> understand the foundational principles and underpinning values and social
> contracts of Linux, Open Source and the Mozilla Foundation.
>