With every new version of OS X (nowadays on a yearly cycle) Apple moves forward and step by step leaves behind old QuickTime supported formats, relaying on HTML5 video to play such kind of media.
That means that current OS 10.11 version (El Capitan) silently undertakes the Plugin support for some legacy formats.
Fortunately for all of those who still dealing with, i.e. AAC Audio files, there’s a way to get a Live Preview when repairing them using MP4repair.org service. Continue reading
Good news on the browsers front: Firefox 20 will support H.264 playback!
Don’t rush to download it, it’s only available in alpha “Aurora” channel as of now. Beta should be out and February and release in April 2013.
This will improve MP4repair.org experience when repairing videos containing H.264: Until now, a QuickTime plug-in was need to see the LivePreview (otherwise only still frames every few seconds were displayed). With H.264 support, Firefox will be on par with Chrome, Internet Explorer 10 and Safari: All 4 major browser will have native LivePreview of H.264 videos (the most popular format found on MP4repair.org)
Good job, Mozilla folks.