Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2015, Ahmad Samir wrote: 

 I am not sure what exactly is happening on your system, but I'd try
 enabling MSE with h264, make sure these are set to true:
 media.fragmented-mp4.enabled
 media.fragmented-mp4.exposed
 media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled
 media.mediasource.mp4.enabled

Thanks a lot for highly valuable information, you made my day!
With these options enabled and webm disabled, I'm able to play both
highres videos and all the other non-highres ones that didn't work.

The blocker for those other videos was MSE  WebM VP9 being
enabled. Now, Firefox uses MSE  H.264 and does exactly what I want it
to do.

Thanks again!

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-23 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 23 August 2015 at 09:06, Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote:

 On 23.08.2015, Ahmad Samir wrote:

  I am not sure what exactly is happening on your system, but I'd try
  enabling MSE with h264, make sure these are set to true:
  media.fragmented-mp4.enabled
  media.fragmented-mp4.exposed
  media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled
  media.mediasource.mp4.enabled

 Thanks a lot for highly valuable information, you made my day!
 With these options enabled and webm disabled, I'm able to play both
 highres videos and all the other non-highres ones that didn't work.

 The blocker for those other videos was MSE  WebM VP9 being
 enabled. Now, Firefox uses MSE  H.264 and does exactly what I want it
 to do.


youtube seems to prefer mp4/h264 over webm/vp{8,9}, so if your system
supports both, youtube will default to playing mp4/h264.

And it seems that MSE support is much better with FF40; I remember testing
it with older versions a couple of months ago and it was awful.

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-23 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 21 August 2015 at 18:04, Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote:

 Hi,

 F22, latest Firefox 40. With standard configuration, I can't play any
 highres video on Youtube (720 or 1080p). When setting

  media.mediasource.enabled
  media.mediasource.webm.enabled

 to true as recommended by the Mozilla Community, highres videos play
 just fine. BUT some other videos now do not play any longer. In
 particular, when setting

  media.mediasource.webm.enabled

 to false, those non-working videos work again. But then, no highres
 is possible. Example:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzN6j6FjJc

[...]

IIUC, there're two different ways of not using adobe flash to play youtube
videos:
- The HTML5 player uses the gstreamer backend on the system
- The HTML5 player uses the MSE (Media Source Extensions) stuff

to check what's enabled on your setup go to youtube.com/html5.

- If MSE can't work on your system either with webm/VP9 format or with the
mp4/h264 format then it'll fallback to the HTML5 player with the gstreamer
backend

- With the gstreamer HMLT5 player not all resolutions are available, for
example with the gstreamer backend I only get 360p and 720p, and nothing in
between or over that range

- I am not sure but I think that not all videos are available in both webm
and h264 formats

I am not sure what exactly is happening on your system, but I'd try
enabling MSE with h264, make sure these are set to true:
media.fragmented-mp4.enabled
media.fragmented-mp4.exposed
media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled
media.mediasource.mp4.enabled

that should make videos become available with more resolutions.

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/22/15 00:04, Heinz Diehl wrote:
 Hi,

 F22, latest Firefox 40. With standard configuration, I can't play any
 highres video on Youtube (720 or 1080p). When setting

  media.mediasource.enabled
  media.mediasource.webm.enabled

 to true as recommended by the Mozilla Community, highres videos play
 just fine. BUT some other videos now do not play any longer. In
 particular, when setting

  media.mediasource.webm.enabled

 to false, those non-working videos work again. But then, no highres
 is possible. Example:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzN6j6FjJc

Is this really supposed to be a video?  It is described as

Published on Feb 28, 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: Progressive House, House
Year: 2002
Music

The music plays along with a static photo on all platforms I tried.

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2015, Ed Greshko wrote: 

 Is this really supposed to be a video?
[]
 The music plays along with a static photo on all platforms I tried.

The thing is: it only plays when the two config options mentioned
before are set to false. But then, not a single video on Youtube can
be played with a 720p / 1080p resolution. And there are a lot of other
videos (real videos, not music playing alongside a static picture)
which won't play when highres HTML5 is enabled in Firefox.

Using Flash rather than HTML5, both cases just work.

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/22/15 20:38, Heinz Diehl wrote:
 On 22.08.2015, Ed Greshko wrote: 

 Is this really supposed to be a video?
 []
 The music plays along with a static photo on all platforms I tried.
 The thing is: it only plays when the two config options mentioned
 before are set to false. But then, not a single video on Youtube can
 be played with a 720p / 1080p resolution. And there are a lot of other
 videos (real videos, not music playing alongside a static picture)
 which won't play when highres HTML5 is enabled in Firefox.

 Using Flash rather than HTML5, both cases just work.

Well, I set both of those to true and the link you provided played just fine 
as well as any video that I could find so far.  Maybe point me to a video that 
doesn't play for you with them sent to true? 

FWIW, I'm not sure of the value of setting media.mediasource.webm.enabled to 
true since I've not encountered any Matroska formatted videos.

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2015, Ed Greshko wrote: 

 Well, I set both of those to true and the link you provided played
 just fine as well as any video that I could find so far.

So now the question is: why does it play for you, but not for me when
both options are set to true?

Both options default to false in latest Fedora Firefox 40, which
means you can't watch any video on Youtube with a higher resolution
than max. 480p. At least I can't. Higher resolutions as 720 or 1080p
are only accessible to me when both options are true. Otherwise, I
simply can't choose them. They are not offered.

 Maybe point me to a video that doesn't play for you with them sent to true? 

I already did. It works for you, but not for me, and I wonder why.

  FWIW, I'm not sure of the value of setting media.mediasource.webm.enabled to 
 true since I've not encountered any Matroska formatted videos.

As already written: *not a single* HD video on Youtube offers me to go
above 480p when these two options default to false.

What am I missing?

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Re: Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/22/15 22:32, Heinz Diehl wrote:
 On 22.08.2015, Ed Greshko wrote: 

 Well, I set both of those to true and the link you provided played
 just fine as well as any video that I could find so far.
 So now the question is: why does it play for you, but not for me when
 both options are set to true?

Yes, that is the question.

 Both options default to false in latest Fedora Firefox 40, which
 means you can't watch any video on Youtube with a higher resolution
 than max. 480p. At least I can't. Higher resolutions as 720 or 1080p
 are only accessible to me when both options are true. Otherwise, I
 simply can't choose them. They are not offered.

With both options set to false my system plays this 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_zcEgx1IgQ in 720p.


 Maybe point me to a video that doesn't play for you with them sent to true? 
 I already did. It works for you, but not for me, and I wonder why.

I was talking about a real video.  Not a CD with a static picture.  I find 
those to be different.


  FWIW, I'm not sure of the value of setting media.mediasource.webm.enabled 
 to true since I've not encountered any Matroska formatted videos.
 As already written: *not a single* HD video on Youtube offers me to go
 above 480p when these two options default to false.

 What am I missing?

Don't know what would make my system work and yours not unless you have an 
extension or plugin installed which is getting in the way.

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Firefox, HTML5 and high res. videos

2015-08-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi,

F22, latest Firefox 40. With standard configuration, I can't play any
highres video on Youtube (720 or 1080p). When setting

 media.mediasource.enabled
 media.mediasource.webm.enabled

to true as recommended by the Mozilla Community, highres videos play
just fine. BUT some other videos now do not play any longer. In
particular, when setting

 media.mediasource.webm.enabled

to false, those non-working videos work again. But then, no highres
is possible. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzN6j6FjJc

WTF?!

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