These play fine with Chrome.
The problem with Firefox appears to be that the apple site is sending the wrong coding for FF so requiring embedded quicktime, rather than using FF's HTML5. See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3jtuxr/firefox_and_apple_trailers/
specifically the third comment (by caspy7). Follow caspy7's github link for further discussion and help on the user-agent resolution.
Switching my FF user-agent to claim it was my tablet's chrome let these videos play fine.
It appears that Apple's view is that page designers shouldn't be coding to require the plugin -- see bottom of:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205081
so it's somewhat amusing that their site is doing just that.
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 08:49:31AM +0000, Richard wrote:
So, I followed that link and installed and set up the user agent switcher, as described there, and now firefox 38.5.0 ESR plays apple trailers! the other posts there indicated you also needed a bug fix from mozilla, but they're also speaking of OSX, so I don't know (nor have a lot of interest) if it's OSX specificially, or just FF 4x or what, but it's working fine today for me on Centos 7.2.
Also, I had no clue that apple served them up in anyform other than quicktime. HTML-5 rocks!
thanks for the pointer to that thread!
Fred
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
Sweet, I didn't realize that either. I suppose if you were picky (and cared about your user-agent for browsing other than Apple's site), you could create another FF profile [0] which you use just for Apple and modify the UA for it and it only. ;-)
[0] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile
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