From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90499138C9D for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51552E0921; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DB43E0919 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnC6W-0003Ns-21 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:27:40 +0200 Received: from 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net ([108.248.189.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:27:40 +0200 Received: from boxcars by 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:27:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:27:32 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20150428152732.4663019f@sepulchrave.remarqs> References: <20150426144959.GA5331@acm.fritz.box> <20150426164927.GB5331@acm.fritz.box> <20150426130330.2c3544bb@sepulchrave.remarqs> <2610136.74a7S7slWU@navi> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: adab41f7-13a2-4202-800a-6ede1f7f3b2d X-Archives-Hash: ab8c15166047187e350992903efafe45 On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:58:55 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > Do you have the "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems" > firefox add-on installed (I think it comes with firefox). I have it > but I still don't have H.264 checked on that page and I can't play > some H.264 videos like this one > https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us. If you have it, > do you mind disabling it to check if that's where you're getting > H.264 support from? I don't understand all the details -- not by a long stretch -- but AIUI, the Cisco thing makes it possible to use H.264 for real-time video chat, called WebRTC by the W3C and "Firefox Hello" by Mozilla. Judging by Alan's USE flags, it's not available for Fx 31.x. In later versions gmp-autoupdate controls it -- with that flag set, Firefox will silently download the thing and updates to it from Cisco. Mozilla won't bundle it because it's patent-encumbered. It comes from Cisco as a binary. There's also media-plugins/gmp-openh264, which I guess means the Gentoo devs hope to offer it built from source -- I haven't looked at the ebuilds. > I have no problems playing youtube videos without it (both HTML5 and > Flash) and I don't have gstreamer enabled on firefox. That makes me worried I gave Alan a bum steer.