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Having problems veiwing h264 videos larger than 2 gb, they refuse to play, in either windows or mac verison of FF. less than 2 gb they play fine.

polaritypictures
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I work for a video company encoding videos, The only problem we have is Firefox not playing videos encoded as H 264 (1080) larger than 2 gb, as they won't play. I Tried both current version 9.0.1 in mac and windows and no change. In IE, Chrome, the video plays fine. Is there a file limitation in Firefox? as I read someplace else that FF also has problems uploading 2 gb files, don't know of that's related. Any help would be appreciated.

I work for a video company encoding videos, The only problem we have is Firefox not playing videos encoded as H 264 (1080) larger than 2 gb, as they won't play. I Tried both current version 9.0.1 in mac and windows and no change. In IE, Chrome, the video plays fine. Is there a file limitation in Firefox? as I read someplace else that FF also has problems uploading 2 gb files, don't know of that's related. Any help would be appreciated.

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Firefox doesn't even play H264 content by default. For HTML5 video it will play OGG / Theora and WebM, but a plugin is needed for H264 content.

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the-edmeister
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Firefox doesn't even play H264 content by default. For HTML5 video it will play OGG / Theora and WebM, but a plugin is needed for H264 content.

polaritypictures
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ok, I'm corrected that HTML 5 support for h264 is not present in FF at the moment. SO if the Video hand-off to flash to play the video in Firefox would be the cause of the File size limitations, then it's Adobe's issue then, correct?

polaritypictures
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oh sorry thanks btw for the quick answer! :)

the-edmeister
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Sorry, Mozilla is never going to support H264 due to it not being free and/or open source.

Sorry, I have no idea about a 2GB limit, it there is one.