On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:49:27 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@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.