Bug 1349899

Summary:	FFmpeg libraries for HTML5 / MP4 video not loaded
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Werner Hoelzl <w.hoelzl>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	6.8
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Description Werner Hoelzl 2016-06-24 13:25:14 UTC

Description of problem:
Red Hat Firefox 45.2 does not load 3rd party FFmpeg libraries for HTML5/MP4 video.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Firefox 45.2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
Install 3rd party FFmpeg libraries (e.g. nux-dextop)
2.
Start Firefox
about:support
Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: No; Compiled without MP4 support.
3.
https://www.youtube.com/html5

Actual results:
H.264 = NO, MSE & H.264 = NO

Expected results:
H.264 = YES, MSE & H.264 = YES

Additional info:
Mozilla Firefox 45.2 uses FFmpeg libraries for HTML5/MP4 if available.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2016-06-27 09:33:53 UTC

Please report that at CentOS bugzilla, CentOS can enable that. We disabled ffmpeg support on RHEL6 because of Firefox crashes caused by ffmpeg library.

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2016-06-27 09:43:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1330898 ***