On Friday, October 24, 2014 at 5:06:22 PM UTC+2, Anthony Jones wrote:
> I just wanted to give a heads up to everyone that we enabled Media
> Source Extensions on nightly for WebM/VP9. This brings Adaptive
> Streaming capability to Firefox video playback. The feature is not
> complete so the pref will automatically turn off when it gets to
> beta/release if we do nothing.
> 
> You can check on YouTube by right clicking the playing video and
> selecting "Stats for nerds" which should appear above the "About the
> HTML5 player" option. If you see "DASH: yes" then you are now living in
> the future.
> 
> This affects YouTube but may also affect sites that use MSE with
> WebM/VP9 but it could also affect sites that use MSE but fail to check
> codec compatibility.
> 
> Please file any (unfiled) issues you experience as blocking bug 1083588.
> Don't expect it to be perfect and if you run into trouble you can set
> media.mediasource.enabled to false in your about:config
> 
> Anthony

That's great news. Does it mean we can expect to see VP9 working in Firefox 37? 
Even on Linux? 
Cause as for Firefox 35 on UBuntu 14.10 I still MSE and VP9  disabled here: 
http://www.youtube.com/html5

Thanks.  
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