| Summary: | Firefox won't play h.264 html5 <video> despite media.gstreamer.enabled=true | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Craig <candrews> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 25 | CC: | candrews, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, rainwoodman, stransky |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2017-05-10 06:53:45 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Craig
2013-12-06 23:18:26 UTC
Problem is that we don't build with gstreamer because the only working version with mozilla code is 0.10.x. This version is no longer supported by gstreamer guys which could lead to potential vulnerability of users. You can track progress in support of gstreamer 1.0 here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917 Direct link http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4 most likely use some plugin (like QuckTime) to playback the video. As soon as support to gstreamer 1.0 will be available we're happy to build with it. (In reply to Jan Horak from comment #1) > Problem is that we don't build with gstreamer because the only working > version with mozilla code is 0.10.x. This version is no longer supported by > gstreamer guys which could lead to potential vulnerability of users. > > You can track progress in support of gstreamer 1.0 here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917 > > Direct link http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4 most > likely use some plugin (like QuckTime) to playback the video. > > As soon as support to gstreamer 1.0 will be available we're happy to build > with it. I'm confused - if that's true, then why would going directly to the mp4 video http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4 bring up the Fedora package manager prompt for gstreamer package installation, and then the second time actually play the video? Check how the media is played. For me it's played by /usr/libexec/totem-plugin-viewer which is a plugin for totem player installed in Fedora. So it's not run by Firefox itself but by embeded NPAPI plugin. You can have such plugin for other players, like vlc, mplayer or so... btw. "$ps axf" on console shows you. You can also see your plugins in Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins. Hi, I am reopening this for Fedora 25. Although the gstreamer-1.0 support has been added to firefox in Fedora 25 the video tag with h264 content still won't play. One can verify this by installing all packages with h264 and visit the page mentioned here: https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html Versions of possibiliy relevant packages: mozilla-openh264-1.6.0-5.fc25.x86_64 openh264-1.6.0-5.fc25.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugin-openh264-1.10.4-1.fc25.x86_64 gstreamer support was removed from Firefox and it uses ffmpeg only now. |