On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:49:27 +0000
Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> 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.
