On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:57:16AM +0100, Igor Živković wrote: > On 03/08/2016 04:17 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > >There is a question if firefox actually needs gstreamer - it > >certainly _references_ ffmpeg, but when I was testing (ff 44.0 I > >think) on my then test machine I installed it onto all the systems - > >one of them was incomplete and did not have ffmpeg, but youtube > >still worked. > > I ditched gstreamer completely from my systems as soon as firefox decided to > use ffmpeg by default so I can confirm that it doesn't need it. > > Youtube might not be the best site to test video playback though as it tries > to guess which formats your browser can play and picks one. For example, > this one might be better: http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html >
Thanks - I'll try to look at that later (too busy upgrading to ff-45 with nss-3.23 (and current certs, of course) at the moment. I'll try to remember to move gstreamer on my next new build (I normally build parole, so I will still want it). ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
