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[–] 81 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Do the streaming issues resolve themselves ✨magically✨ when faking the user agent to be Chrome for those streaming sites, e.g. using Firefox and a user agent add-on?

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Many do, yes. Any time I get an error message like "You're not using a supported browser" that message vanishes after adjusting the user agent.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well yes, the warning messages will disappear as those are often shown or not shown based on user agent.

    But will the actual streaming issues go away is the big question.

    Teams on the web for example, worked fine in Firefox even though it warned the user it didn't work in anything but Chrome.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    My issues were with h265/HEVC support, proprietary stuff like media codecs can sometimes be a pain. I no longer have that need so I'm a happy fox.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure Firefox added support for HEVC a while back, but it relies on the system to provide the decoder (Which you'll usually have to pay extra for)

    Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.

    Since when‽ It feels like support for that format took centuries!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    In 145.

    Funny thing is, the WebM format is actually a constrained profile of MKV, and Firefox strictly enforced those compatibility checks. Chrome never did though, so it could always support MKV files but only if you lied and claimed they were WebM.

    Edit: Lemmy eats the highlight in the link, look for "Matroska" under "Web Platform"

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