* [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
@ 2012-07-22 5:11 Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-22 5:23 ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-22 13:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
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From: Nilesh Govindrajan @ 2012-07-22 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo User Mailing List
So yeah, the question is clear.
How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
Compile firefox without webm support?
Or there's some other way around?
--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
2012-07-22 5:11 [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm Nilesh Govindrajan
@ 2012-07-22 5:23 ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-22 5:27 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-22 13:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
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From: Alecks Gates @ 2012-07-22 5:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
<contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> So yeah, the question is clear.
> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile
> firefox without webm support?
>
> Or there's some other way around?
>
> --
> Nilesh Govindrajan
> http://nileshgr.com
>
Go to Firefox preferences, Applications and type "webm" you should see
a dropdown box of what you can do with it. That's just a quick
assumption, mine is already set to gecko-mediaplayer.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
2012-07-22 5:23 ` Alecks Gates
@ 2012-07-22 5:27 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
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From: Nilesh Govindrajan @ 2012-07-22 5:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 10:53:22 AM IST, Alecks Gates wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
> <contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
>> So yeah, the question is clear.
>> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile
>> firefox without webm support?
>>
>> Or there's some other way around?
>>
>> --
>> Nilesh Govindrajan
>> http://nileshgr.com
>>
>
> Go to Firefox preferences, Applications and type "webm" you should see
> a dropdown box of what you can do with it. That's just a quick
> assumption, mine is already set to gecko-mediaplayer.
>
Tried that before posting here. No use.
--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
2012-07-22 5:11 [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-22 5:23 ` Alecks Gates
@ 2012-07-22 13:23 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-22 18:06 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-22 18:29 ` Alecks Gates
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From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2012-07-22 13:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> So yeah, the question is clear.
> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
> Compile firefox without webm support?
>
> Or there's some other way around?
You misunderstand the job GM is doing. It's a video player for embedded
video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. If the embedded
video is WebM, GM will play it. If it's HTML5 video (both WebH and
H.264), then it will not, and Firefox will play it directly.
So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play HTML5
videos using gecko-mediaplayer? :-) (I don't know the answer. I
suspect it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is to
have the browser play the video.)
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
2012-07-22 13:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
@ 2012-07-22 18:06 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-22 18:29 ` Alecks Gates
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From: Nilesh Govindrajan @ 2012-07-22 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 06:53:13 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> So yeah, the question is clear.
>> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
>> Compile firefox without webm support?
>>
>> Or there's some other way around?
>
> You misunderstand the job GM is doing. It's a video player for
> embedded video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. If
> the embedded video is WebM, GM will play it. If it's HTML5 video
> (both WebH and H.264), then it will not, and Firefox will play it
> directly.
>
> So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play
> HTML5 videos using gecko-mediaplayer? :-) (I don't know the answer.
> I suspect it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is
> to have the browser play the video.)
>
>
Anyway, I got the answer :)
Probably compiling firefox without webm support would get me my way.
--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm
2012-07-22 13:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-22 18:06 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
@ 2012-07-22 18:29 ` Alecks Gates
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From: Alecks Gates @ 2012-07-22 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Jul 22, 2012 8:24 AM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>
>> So yeah, the question is clear.
>> How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer?
>> Compile firefox without webm support?
>>
>> Or there's some other way around?
>
>
> You misunderstand the job GM is doing. It's a video player for embedded
video objects and its plugin registers itself as such. If the embedded
video is WebM, GM will play it. If it's HTML5 video (both WebH and H.264),
then it will not, and Firefox will play it directly.
>
> So your question should rather be: How do I force Firefox to play HTML5
videos using gecko-mediaplayer? :-) (I don't know the answer. I suspect
it is not possible, since the whole point of HTML5 video is to have the
browser play the video.)
>
>
Actually it seems just going to the .webm file in firefox will
automatically render as an HTML5 video, even though the mimetype is
video/webm. Firefox doesn't do this for other videos, as near as I can
tell -- I only tried it with a .mp4, and it played using
gecko-mediaplayer. I tested both of these files with "file://". So I
think the issue isn't HTML5 at all, but firefox deciding what to do with
"video/webm" files, but it's possible I don't understand exactly what
firefox does. I admittedly don't know much about the internals of firefox
nor html.
I would agree the simple workaround would be to compile without webm
support but it almost seems like a bug in firefox (or perhaps an intended
feature).
Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
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