On 09/25/2013 09:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:45:59AM -0700, i...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org > wrote: >> Author: igor >> Date: Wed Sep 25 04:45:59 2013 >> New Revision: 11872 >> >> Log: >> firefox actually requires the rtp plugin from gst-plugins-good package to >> play h264/mp4 videos >> >> Modified: >> trunk/BOOK/x/lib/xulrunner.xml >> trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml >> >> Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/lib/xulrunner.xml >> ============================================================================== >> --- trunk/BOOK/x/lib/xulrunner.xml Wed Sep 25 02:40:02 2013 (r11871) >> +++ trunk/BOOK/x/lib/xulrunner.xml Wed Sep 25 04:45:59 2013 (r11872) >> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ >> <xref linkend="curl"/>, >> <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>, >> <xref linkend="doxygen"/>, >> - <xref linkend="gst-plugins-base"/>, >> + <xref linkend="gst-plugins-good"/>, >> <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/";>Hunspell</ulink>, >> <xref linkend="libnotify"/>, >> <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, >> > Do you know if the good plugins are needed at build time ? Based > on all the other packages using gstreamer which I have encountered, > I assume that the base package is needed when building, and that > firefox ought to run (without being able to play h264), so the good > plugins would be a runtime recommendation ? > > This sounds like splitting hairs, but I like to build firefox early > on a new system. There some optional deps for the good plugins that > I usually build a lot later.
Only gstreamer-plugins-base package is required at build time. You can compile good-plugins-good at later time. That's what I did anyways when I discovered I can't view H.264 videos on my newest build. -- Igor Živković http://www.slashtime.net/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
