Comments on: Firefox 3.6 gets full screen native video

By: Iraê

Iraê — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:21:58 +0000

For me it’s working OK (final firefox release), but I also support the Idea that a button on the interface is needed and javascript fuscreen methods.

This site has a nice implementation of the vide tag. Degrading progressivelly between:
Ogg, Mp4, Flash video (standard object), Flash video for IE, and download option if no other option is available. Good to see people using that.

http://layersapp.com/

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:55:27 +0000

Chrome and opera also have the video html tag support, so no its not just a firefox only feature. Also, in my opinion the flash solution is currently a better solution for dev,s as it works pretty good and supports the highest percentage of internet users. That said, this solution needs to exits as an alternative for many reasons. If implemented more often and in a larger scale it has the opportunity to become better than the flash solution if more developers contribitute to and make it work better. There really should be an open, free solution for video on the web. I’ve heard over and over, Adobe or apple or whoever is paying the licensing fees so the user can enjoy the content for free (as in beer). It is still not free (as in speech) and regardless this does not help in the generation of content end.

By: wyzmo

wyzmo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:21:36 +0000

Hmm its good but I prefer Element Browser since it uses OpenGL.

By: Luiz Fernando

Luiz Fernando — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:22:28 +0000

It stills way slower than Flash video playback. Heck, between a slow feature only avaible on FireFox and a fast Flash object that can run on all major browsers, what do you guys think devs will choose? :/

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:52:59 +0000

I’m also getting slow loading & video freeze when in full-screen (not happening with IE). Also, if I have a video clip playing in a tab then close that tab, the sound keeps playing until the end of the clip. Any ideas on that one? Thanks.

By: no worries mate

no worries mate — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:41:43 +0000

Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz. Radeon HD 3850. 1 GB of RAM.

Small size: watchable but not enjoyable.
Fullscreen: absolutely terrible, the sound is even skipping back and forth in time.

If it’s not going to be faster than Flash I don’t see the point. Open or not, no one is going to want to make a switch if it ends up being worse and there’s a sizable chunk of people on the internet that want to watch videos that do not have a top performing gaming machine for surfing the web.

By: david

david — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:17:26 +0000

worth try

By: Jeff Byer

Jeff Byer — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:52:43 +0000

Aside from the delay in switching between full screen and normal mode, it looks to be working as expected.

By: abhijith raj

abhijith raj — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:18:07 +0000

very fast, i can watch in fullscreen.

By: Paul Hadden

Paul Hadden — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:23:35 +0000

Has anyone ever tried to broadcast a live event using FF video player? If so I would love the opportunity to discuss.

By: R2

R2 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:27:18 +0000

If you want Mozilla to take care of the Choppy video issue, vote for the Bug :
Bug 523492 – Ogg video playback in Full screen is very choppy
Link:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523492

By: R2

R2 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:16:15 +0000

I get choppy picture with Full Screen on every computer I have tried
Two of the computers I have tried:
1)AMD 64bit 1.6ghz
1gb RAM
256MB ATI video card
Takes 100% of the CPU processing
2) Centrino CORE 2 DUO 2.26ghz
1gb RAM
Takes 30-70% of CPU processing and still a choppy pictured

note: videos play normally and without any problems when they are in their original size

I’m using FIREFOX 3.6 “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b4) Gecko/20091124 Firefox/3.6b4″

This needs to be improved, Youtube plays HD videos on full screen and only takes 20-30% of the CPU with the video playing smoothly.

By: Theeo123

Theeo123 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000

I’m on a 10+ year old IBM thinkpad T40
it has an Intel Pentium (1) Moblie CPU at 1500 Mhz and just under 512Mb ram (a few mb get shared to the vid card)

for me the vids run fine, no more or less choppy that your average youtube vid with the HQ button checked.

By: DragonRosesCC

DragonRosesCC — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:45:20 +0000

i noticed this too. it’s really upsetting! some sites don’t allow resume. so i have to wait till the entire video downloads and watch it all again. thats when i give up!
I think FireFox should have codecs plugin at least for us that will use this as media player. or does it already?

By: DragonRosesCC

DragonRosesCC — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:42:34 +0000

i think that is something with windows. cause if you move that broswer over to your sec. monitor then close it there. then you open your browser it opens there (the last place it was) at least it does it to me in Win XP.
Hope that answered your question.

By: DragonRosesCC

DragonRosesCC — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:39:10 +0000

do you know of how to use english subtitles on a spanish or french only movie? I find a few movies i really wanna see but their don’t have english subtitles in them. i think i have seen a site or two that say you can download them but IDK how to put them in.

By: smithy

smithy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:58:12 +0000

i fond full screen kept dropping out and had a lot off pop ups witch did’nt help ether

By: steamed

steamed — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:12:13 +0000

fire fox crashes when u are watching vids (streaming) it always crushes after a while if am using full screen

By: maacruz

maacruz — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:12:25 +0000

Unfortunately, this is even far slower than flash 10 on linux at least. Useless till acceleration is added.

By: WulfTheSaxon

WulfTheSaxon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:40:21 +0000

The fullscreen feature could use a buttonâ€¦

By: Matthew Krick

Matthew Krick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:41:48 +0000

It’s nifty, but when used with dual monitors the video pops up on the primary screen instead of the screen where the browser is.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:13:52 +0000

Could you provide a button for the page with the video, rather than need to right click?

By: Midna

Midna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:04:50 +0000

Overall, I think it’s a good idea.

By: david

david — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:49:07 +0000

it was very very and i am not sure yet

By: Midna

Midna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:46:44 +0000

Wouldn’t the video lose it quality and be fuzzy? Embedded videos are often small, so making them full screen will stretch the video, plus lose it quality, especially those who have large screens. So, this isn’t the best idea, unless there is something I don’t know about. Better yet, why not have an option to select a resolution for the video when making it larger.