The video does not play

[GIGANTOR]

URL: http://www.dailymotion.com
Browser: Firefox
Version: 25.0
Problem type: Don't know but something's wrong.
Site owner: No

Steps to Reproduce

1. Navigate to: http://www.dailymotion.com
2. Try to watch a video

Expected Behavior: The video plays
Actual Behavior: The site needs Flash

[adamopenweb]

Hmm, according to http://www.dailymotion.com/doc/api/player.html:
"Our iframe based embed player works on many different devices, even ones that doesn’t support Flash. Our player will automatically choose the best technology to use (Flash, HTML5, .."

[magsout]

And

force the player controls to use either flash or html mode. When html mode is forced, the player may not be able to play the video if the browser doesn’t support HTML5 <video> tag and/or H.264 codec

Firefox is not compatible with the H.264 codec

[adamopenweb]

I'm going to close the bug as Firefox is planning to support Cisco's H264 codec soon.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperability-on-the-web-gets-a-boost-from-ciscos-h-264-codec/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948160