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 B2997138C9D for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78673E075F; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU004-OMC1S30.hotmail.com (blu004-omc1s30.hotmail.com [65.55.116.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9052AE0384 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU436-SMTP59 ([65.55.116.7]) by BLU004-OMC1S30.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:35:09 -0700 X-TMN: [efOOmXvlLA/H05X8BWqTIzUcjaxGqtWprLS7ZEyIYEs=] X-Originating-Email: [frodriguez.developer@outlook.com] Message-ID: From: Fernando Rodriguez To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:33:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.19.3; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20150426144959.GA5331@acm.fritz.box> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Apr 2015 02:35:09.0290 (UTC) FILETIME=[C7696CA0:01D08092] X-Archives-Salt: 0878bdda-983d-47fe-83a0-29180ad36aec X-Archives-Hash: 13714b708b0e5eb83debe397acaec840 On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: > > > > USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > > -custom-optimization -debug -gstreamer -hardened (-pgo) -pulseaudio > > (-selinux) -system-cairo -system-icu -system-jpeg -system-libvpx > > -system-sqlite {-test} -wifi" > > `euses system-libvpx` says "use the system-wide media-libs/libvpx" and if we look up media-libs/libvpx then its description explains that its about the WebM VP8 codec. It would be better if it explained that this is a _video_ codec, but Gentoo's USE flag and package descriptions have always been rubbish. > > I would perhaps try rebuilding with USE=system-libvpx and checking the https://www.youtube.com/html5 page again. I believe that's just an option between using the libvpx bundled with firefox as recommended by mozilla, or using the system libvpx. > Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. > > I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "youtube html5 firefox" I find that "Google will enforce the use of HTML5 video on YouTube for all Firefox users who use Firefox 33 or newer", "FYI: Firefox 35 uses the HTML5 video player in Youtube by default" and "Firefox 37 Released With Native HTML5 YouTube Playback" Firefox 37 still uses the flash player for youtube. It will fallback on HTML5 if the flash player crashes. There's an update on that page that the change has been delayed. -- Fernando Rodriguez