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Firefox 37 on Ubuntu 14.10 can't use Media Source Extensions on YouTube

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I saw on the release notes that Media Source Extensions was enabled for YouTube with this release. Was I mistaken?

I saw on the release notes that Media Source Extensions was enabled for YouTube with this release. Was I mistaken?
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MSE is still disabled by default in Firefox 37 on Linux.

  • media.mediasource.enabled = false
445 // Whether to enable MediaSource support.
446 // We want to enable on non-release  builds and on release windows and mac
447 // but on release builds restrict to YouTube. We don't enable for other
448 // configurations because code for those platforms isn't ready yet.
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MSE is still disabled by default in Firefox 37 on Linux.

  • media.mediasource.enabled = false
445 // Whether to enable MediaSource support.
446 // We want to enable on non-release  builds and on release windows and mac
447 // but on release builds restrict to YouTube. We don't enable for other
448 // configurations because code for those platforms isn't ready yet.
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cor-el said

MSE is still disabled by default in Firefox 37 on Linux.
  • media.mediasource.enabled = false
445 // Whether to enable MediaSource support.
446 // We want to enable on non-release  builds and on release windows and mac
447 // but on release builds restrict to YouTube. We don't enable for other
448 // configurations because code for those platforms isn't ready yet.

Ah, there really should have been something in the release notes about that.

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cor-el said

MSE is still disabled by default in Firefox 37 on Linux.
  • media.mediasource.enabled = false
445 // Whether to enable MediaSource support.
446 // We want to enable on non-release  builds and on release windows and mac
447 // but on release builds restrict to YouTube. We don't enable for other
448 // configurations because code for those platforms isn't ready yet.

I saw that when I got the same showing on the Youtube html5 page. If you set the relevant mse flags to "true", video playback breaks (at least for some videos). Why is that?

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That is the reason why it is still false on Linux. If the devs are confident that it will work then this pref will be true by default.


1083588 – (youtube-mse) [META] Tracking bug for YouTube MSE issues: