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On the other hand, in addition to being new and thus not being widely supported, WebM does not have any hardware decoders like H.264 does.
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Mozilla and Opera refuse to provide support for H.264 because the H.264 patent license agreement isn't cheap. Apple seems to be only interested in H.264, but it has not really joined the conversation yet. Google's goal is to push the world towards WebM. Microsoft's goal is to make sure that if the operating system supports H.264 (Windows 7 does out-of-the-box), then the user can play back said video, regardless of which browser they have installed.
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All the browser vendors agree that their software should have support for the HTML5 video tag, but they can't seem to agree on a standard that will allow it.
Certain browsers requiring plug-ins to support WebM video and others requiring plug-ins to support H.264 video is hardly a better solution to what we currently have. These plug-in announcements are reminiscent of Adobe's stranglehold on online video with Flash. Although IE9 supports H.264, excluding all other codecs, Microsoft is making an exception for WebM, as long as the user installs the corresponding codec, and is helping Google ensure the plug-in works properly. The company also announced that it would release WebM plugins for Internet Explorer 9 and Safari. Google was actually in favor of both H.264 and WebM up until earlier this month, when the search giant decided to drop H.264 support completely, even though the former is widely used and the latter is not. Here's the current state of HTML5 video: Microsoft and Apple are betting on H.264, while Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are rooting for WebM. Even though Firefox and Chrome are big competitors to Microsoft's own Internet Explorer, the software giant has decided Windows 7 users should be able to play back H.264 video even if they aren't using IE9. As you may recall, less than two months ago, Microsoft released the HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in with the same goal in mind.
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When you find them, click Check for update button.Microsoft has released a Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome so as to enable H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using built-in capabilities available on Windows 7. On this page look for Adobe Flash Player and pepper_flash. Open Chrome and type the following into the browser address bar chrome://components and press Enter.
There is a good chance that this alone will fix any couldn’t load plugin errors.
To check if your extension is enabled correctly go to Settings > More Tools > Extensions, then make sure the box is ticked next to the extension.Īfter checking all of those restart Chrome. Note: To update Chrome go to Settings > About and Chrome will automatically update itself. You will also need to make sure that the plugin that is causing the error is set to allowed to run in the Chrome extensions page. Before starting though, make sure you have installed the latest version of Google Chrome and all your plugins are up to date. Thankfully fixing the issues is relatively easy and doesn’t require making any drastic changes to your computer. Generally couldn’t load plugin errors are caused by Adobe Flash Player, specifically PepperFlash.
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How to Fix 'Couldn’t Load Plugin' Error in Google Chrome.