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How can I watch webm videos in Firefox on Windows?

Thun Fremlinc replied
Thun Fremlinc

Neither the [`

So how do I get them running? A significant portion of the internet runs on WebM and the fact that Mozilla's own dev docs can't show examples is a good indication of a problem.

Neither the [`<video>` example on MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/video ) nor the [HTML5 WebM Video Test here](https://www.tekeye.uk/html/html5-video-test-page) play in Firefox on Windows, and [the support page](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/audio-and-video-firefox) entirely omits how you're meant to get these working & playing. So how do I get them running? A significant portion of the internet runs on WebM and the fact that Mozilla's own dev docs can't show examples is a good indication of a problem.

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Okulungisiwe ngu Thun Fremlinc

Wow, what an absolutely broken forum input box, bad implementation of both HTML & markdown inputs? Yikes. Will need a mod to clean this up. Third try's the charm?:

Neither the video element example on MDN nor the HTML5 WebM Video Test here play in Firefox on Windows, and the support page has entirely omitted info on how you're meant to set this up.

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