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Why does bitdash require Flash? I tried to use it (Firefox 38 on Linux) but it says:

"No supported technology was detected, i.e. neither Flash nor the MediaSource Extension was found and no HLS manifest was given or HLS is also not supported. Please download the Flash Player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ or try another browser."

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Firefox was lacking behind in supporting the HTML5 Media Source Extensions, it's in since Firefox 42. Everything beyond this still needs Flash for HLS or MPEG DASH playback

Here is tracking bug for Firefox Media Source Extensions API https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617

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