• Victor@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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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      1 day ago

      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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        16 hours ago

        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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      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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        21 hours ago

        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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        Tell them to get their shit together and support open-source browsers, or more accurately just browser standards in general.