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From: »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:03:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150426130330.2c3544bb@sepulchrave.remarqs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150426164927.GB5331@acm.fritz.box

On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:49:27 +0000
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:23:53AM -0500, »Q« wrote:

> > Alan, I think Firefox relies on gstreamer for at least some of its
> > HTML5 playback capability, so USE="-gstreamer" may be at the root of
> > the  issue.  On the YouTube HTML5 page, do you get a "What does this
> > browser support?" section?  If so, what does it say?
> 
> Of the six boxes there, I have ticks (?check marks?) on
>   o - HTMLVideoElement
>   o - WebM VP8
> I have exclamation marks on all the others, namely
>   o - H.264
        ^^^^^
This is the only one which I have but you don't, and HTML video plays ok
for me with Firefox 37.0.2.

>   o - Media Source Extensions
>   o - MSE & H.264
>   o - MSE & WebM VP9

The MSE ones are disabled in all Firefoxen for now.  They tried
enabling support recently, but uncovered so many bugs they had to
disable it right away.

> It's frustrating that "HTML5" isn't mentioned in that list of six.

HTML5 video encompasses several formats.  "HTMLVideoElement" checked
just means the browser will recognize <video> elements, and the others
are various formats.

> I'll take your tip and try rebuilding with gstreamer enabled.  Thanks!

I hope it works!  I just tried looking at which gst-plugins I have
installed, to figure out which might give H.264 support, but I can't
make sense of it.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-26 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-26 14:49 [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-26 15:55 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-26 16:23   ` »Q«
2015-04-26 16:49     ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-26 18:03       ` »Q« [this message]
2015-04-26 22:58         ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-28 20:27           ` »Q«
2015-05-05 16:56             ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-27  0:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2015-04-27  2:07   ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-27  2:18   ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-28 20:34     ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-04-27  2:21   ` [gentoo-user] " Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-27  2:30   ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-27  2:33   ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-27 15:01   ` Matti Nykyri
2015-04-28 20:59     ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-04-28 22:11       ` »Q«
2015-04-28 15:49   ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2015-04-28 20:49     ` covici
2015-04-27  1:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen

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