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by kuschku 4106 days ago
Firefox ships their own decoder now, Cisco donated a license of the MPEG patents to Mozilla.
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I have been told that's only used for webrtc. playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux or media foundation on windows.
>playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux

If only. It uses that broken pile of abstraction called GStreamer.