<story><title>Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bbx</author><text>No matter what codec will eventually be widely adopted, I hope native video support for browsers will lead to better video players. Right now, I have issues with YouTube (loading speed, quality switching back and forth between 480p, 720p and 240p), Vimeo (still can&amp;#x27;t jump to a desired position, loads incredibly slowly), various Flash embedded players (won&amp;#x27;t load, or will reset to 0:00 when trying to change the current position), auto-playing videos, lack of controls, usability issues...&lt;p&gt;I usually end up downloading the video with a Firefox add-on to watch it later. Or just stop bothering and close the tab.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>recuter</author><text>I find myself increasingly frequently using &amp;#x27;youtube-dl&amp;#x27; to grab clips, advantages being that youtube sometimes only buffers a little bit before stopping and this way I don&amp;#x27;t need to care about keeping tabs open or codecs.&lt;p&gt;Everything always plays fine with VLC and I can mess with the playback speed by simply pressing &amp;#x27;[]&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Should probably automate this. Maybe independently of browsers, just sniff my own traffic and MITM myself (request goes to youtube-dl, browser gets a page that closes itself immediately).</text></comment>