On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:27:32 PM »Q« wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:58:55 -0400 > Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> 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.
Thanks, I rebuilt firefox with gstreamer support today and now I can play H.264 video. I still can't play quicktime videos from apple's site. I think there's a gstreamer plugin for this but I don't know what gentoo package to install. -- Fernando Rodriguez
