Using the link to the mp4 in this bug's description, video and audio are working here in Firefox 37.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 with gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly installed.
For Ubuntu 12.04, which uses gstreamer 0.10, H.264 video support was introduced in Firefox 26, provided that the appropriate gstreamer plug- ins are installed - seehttp://website- archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en- US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/ Ubuntu 14.04 uses gstreamer 1.0 by default. Firefox introduced support for H.264 video with gstreamer 1.0 in Firefox 30, which was released on June 10, 2014 - see https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/30.0/releasenotes/ ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998569 Title: Embedded MP4 only plays audio in browser window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/998569/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs