Microsoft Extends “Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox” to Play H.264-Encoded Videos on HTML5 Pages

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Microsoft has released an add-on for Mozilla Firefox users. The HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in is an add-on that enables Firefox users to play H.264-encoded videos on HTML5 pages by using the built-in capabilities found in Windows 7.

This Extension adds to the functionality of the extremely popular earlier Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox to enable web pages that use the emerging HTML5 standard.

The Extension is based on a Firefox Add-on that parses HTML5 pages and replaces Video tags with a call to the Windows Media Player plug-in so that the content can be played in the browser. The Add-on replaces video tags only if the video formats specified in the tag are among those supported by Windows Media Player. Tags that contain other video formats are not touched.

Supported Platforms:

  • Requires Firefox 3.6 or latest Firefox 4.0 beta
  • Windows 7

Install the Add-on

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