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Firefox 43 to Use FFmpeg by Default on Linux

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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FFmpeg is present in most Linux distributions, so it's not really surprising that Mozilla finally decided to make an important change to Firefox and allow it to use the latest FFmpeg packages that are present in a system.

FFmpeg is a famous multimedia framework, and it's a solution that's become more and more popular. Most of the Linux distributions use and integrate it by default, or at least they provide the packages in the repositories. One of the biggest Linux OSes, Ubuntu, has recently moved from Libav to FFmpeg, so it's safe to say that most users have access to it.

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