#8145: firefox - is system ffmpeg still needed for h264 playback ?
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: ken@…
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: |
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Changes (by ken@…):
* status: assigned => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Old description:
> When I looked at firefox-48.0 I discovered that it includes shipped
> ffmpeg (as well as libs ogg,theora,vorbis) and has no option to use
> system versions. AFAICS, it does not need system ffmpeg, but Igor asked
> me to check if firefox on a system without system-ffmpeg can play h264
> videos.
>
> At the moment I don't have such a system, this ticket is a reminder for
> me or anybody else to test ff48 when a suitable system is available.
>
> Most of my videos of this type are encoded with x264, or labelled as Adva
> nced Video Codec in mediainfo. I got big_buck_bunny_720p_h264.mov from
> [http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/] and that too is
> AVC, but from the name I guess it will do ? (398 MB for the 720p
> variant).
>
> If successful, remove ffmpeg from the runtime dependencies in firefox.
New description:
When I looked at firefox-48.0 I discovered that it includes shipped ffmpeg
(as well as libs ogg,theora,vorbis) and has no option to use system
versions. AFAICS, it does not need system ffmpeg, but Igor asked me to
check if firefox on a system without system-ffmpeg can play h264 videos.
At the moment I don't have such a system, this ticket is a reminder for me
or anybody else to test ff48 when a suitable system is available.
Most of my videos of this type are encoded with x264, or labelled as Adva
nced Video Codec in mediainfo. I got big_buck_bunny_720p_h264.mov from
[http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/] and that too is
AVC, but from the name I guess it will do ? (398 MB for the 720p variant).
If successful, remove ffmpeg from the runtime dependencies in firefox.
Closing as invalid because extra programs (not just ffmpeg!) are needed in
my case.
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Comment:
Here are the results now that I have installed my full AV stack. They are
somewhat disappointing.
mp4 - plays in firefox
mkv - offers to open with xine (default, from mime settings) - plays
ogv - plays in firefox as before
wmv - offers to open with xine (default) but then fails, claiming it is
missing
avi - offers to open with parole (default), but fails to initialise
backend in
gstreamer
mov - offers to open in xine (default), continues to report my own are
corrupt, but plays downloads
And for several of these (NOT mp4) the sound is silent.
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