Hi, starting with firefox 14, a new html5 video backend using GStreamer was added to firefox (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540) With a few additional fixes backported (namely, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747257 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776838) i'm now able to build firefox with gstreamer enabled, and that adds minimal support for h264 video (working examples: http://m.democracynow.org, http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/video-selection/src-mp4.html). This allows http://dailymotion.com videos to show up, otherwise you need flash. Unfortunately no change on http://vimeo.com since they use a flash player, and http://youtube.com/html5 still reports firefox as not supporting h264 for them (but that should be adressed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760140). Performance is horrible here, but my desktop is 10 years old so i dont blame the browser.
Now, the question: do we want to enable that, given that this adds a bunch of new dependencies (gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-ffmpeg...) ? Note that if you have something pulling in webkit, those deps are already installed... I still have to test this on ppc, since an ugly endianness=1234 is hardcoded somewhere in the backend... For the ones wanting to test that (built against somewhat 5.2) : http://rhaalovely.net/stuff/i386/firefox-14.0.1.tgz http://rhaalovely.net/stuff/amd64/firefox-14.0.1.tgz And for the ones interested in the ports details, the 4 last commits to http://rhaalovely.net/cgit/mozilla-firefox/log/?h=release are relevant. Note that i'm _not_ interested in 'this site with nakked ladies and lolcats still doesnt work' feedback, i only want to know if this brings improvements to some websites, if this is really usable with decent hw (ie xvideo-supported) and doesnt break anything else. Landry
