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I tried using it (in Firefox 36). It's working until it gets randomly stuck (mostly in the video while audio continues playing). I.e. pretty unstable at the moment.

Admittedly, I'm using it with gstreamer 0.10, since 1.0 isn't enabled in the stock build yet. May be it's affecting the result.

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Firefox 36 will have issues, yes. Nightly, Aurora or Beta will do better. You don't need gstreamer for MSE/MP4 support. Just have set to true in about:config the following:

media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled media.fragmented-mp4.exposed media.mediasource.mp4.enabled media.mediasource.enabled

This will use the system install of library libavformat.

If you receive hangs on this configuration with FF 37 or higher, a bug report would be much appreciated. Or contact me directly if you don't want to do the bugzilla dance.

I think I have OpenH264 disabled, that's why it's using gstreamer.

I don't mind filing bugs in bugzilla ;)

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