Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-19 Thread Jape Person
On 06/19/2017 09:10 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 13:47:32 -0400, Jape Person wrote: So you don't even install recommends normally? I would have supposed (from reading various descriptions of recommends) that this would result in significant functional compromise in most packages. Not

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-19 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 13:47:32 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > On 06/18/2017 07:54 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >My main Jessie machine does not install recommended packages; it > >plays youtube clips within firefox-esr. > > So you don't even install recommends normally? I would have supposed (from >

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-18 Thread Jape Person
On 06/18/2017 07:54 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 00:27:29 -0400, Jape Person wrote: Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing

Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 00:27:29 -0400, Jape Person wrote: > Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who > might run into the same issue. > > It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day > on my testing systems. I get the impression

gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-17 Thread Jape Person
Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing systems. I get the impression that this may not be a common practice, but I've been doing this